Letters from Iwo Jima

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  • 2007


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Average Rating 3.9/5
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3.0
It takes a filmmaker of uncommon control and mature grace to say so much with so little superfluous movement, and Eastwood triumphs in the challenge. EW
5.0
For a fraction of a second at the very beginning of Clint Eastwoods Letters from Iwo Jima, you may think that you are gazing overhead at a field of st .. Rogerebert
4.5
His burgeoning relationship with Jessie is surprisingly realistic in a host of wholly unexpected ways this isnt some creepy reverse take on The Gradua .. Austin Chronicle
0.5
All of which, lets face it, isnt so much of a hassle as great fun of the sort generated years ago by the late, lamented midnight movie circuit. Austin Chronicle
4.0
A very fine film, with some surreal ironies witness the almost imperceptible shot of the famous flag hoisting on Mount Suribachi in extreme longshot t .. Time Out
3.8
In spite of its cases of explanatory handholding, there remains a stirring potency to Letters exploration of loyalty, responsibility, and nobility.
3.5
In the last half hour, the story, like the Japanese, loses its way; lacking any clear cut goals except survival, the movie becomes repetitive.
4.0
Furthermore, Eastwood doesnt do a particularly keen job of establishing thespatial relationships necessary to make full, working sense of Kuribayashis .. Screen Daily
4.0
The humanistic approach makes Eastwoods movie a war story for the ages.
5.0
A fine, textured study of war, one that considers the strategic side as well as the human side without sacrificing either. E Film Critic
5.0
Clint Eastwood will always be a red blooded American filmmaker, but with Letters from Iwo Jima hes demonstrated a remarkable maturity by looking outsi .. E Film Critic
4.5
Eastwood has made one of the most quietly devastating war movies of our time. Telegraph
3.8
That it has taken this long says something about the difference between the two world wars and the enemies America faced. San Francisco Chronicle
4.0
Hollywood is often criticised for dehumanising its enemies, reducing them to shadowy shapes behind bursts of gunfire and the occasional Wilhelm scream ..
4.5
Letters from Iwo Jima isnt a movie about finding victory, but a lesson in what it really means to die with honor. Cinema Blend
5.0
But despite its cutting commentary about presidents and propagandizing, about the shaky nature of heroism and the making and breaking of men, Flags wa .. Philly
3.0
Represents a serious and sensitive epic on the real nature of war not as some strategic game but as a devastating human experience. One Guys Opinion
4.5
Eastwood seems less concerned with provocation than with contemplation, of a popular military campaign and its supposed days of glory. The second film .. Village Voice
2.0
War as hell rings through loud and clear, as it seems that its no longer in fashion for even a commercial film to do an old fashioned John Wayne like .. Sover
3.8
Theres plenty of gore, although the movie is less visceral than its companion piece.In Flags of Our Fathers, Eastwood seems influenced by Saving Priva .. ReelViews
4.4
Far from a mirror image of FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, which contained scenes of the battle of Iwo Jima seen exclusively from the U.S. perspective, the Japa .. Tv Guide
4.4
And so Eastwoods stepping up and setting a good example is an achievement that has far more weight than yet another examination of the fruitlessness a .. Combust Ible Celluloid
5.0
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5.0
The film has a lesser scope of story than its predecessor, but in its minimal approach, it far surpasses its companions emotional scope. Mark Reviews Movies
2.0
This is one of the best ensemble performances of the year, if not the decade.
3.0
It isnt anti American.It is definitely not pro American nor is it pro Japanese. Lariat
2.0
Eastwood directs the personal scenes with tenderness and the battle scenes with shocking frankness. Eric Ds Nider
4.0
Letters, especially, is a remarkable feat of artistic imagination that feels more like a Japanese movie than an American one. News Review
4.5
Eastwood directs this with a stark simplicity, never over egging the story. Shadows On The Wall
4.0
Impressively directed, engaging and frequently moving drama, although its a shame that there isnt a little more crossover with its companion piece. View London
2.0
In its emotional simplicity and straightforward narrative punch, Letters also harks back to what was best about those war movies. Cs Monitor
5.0
But taken together, the two films mark a tremendous achievement by a master filmmaker. Film Journal International ..
5.0
But it turns out to be a pretty big difference.Where Flags tried too hard to be earnest and beat the audiences over the head to offer a message, Lette .. Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
3.1
Its final downfall for me was its revisionist history that has us executing POWs in cold blood while the Japanese take good care of ours. Give me a br .. Internet Reviews
5.0
Eastwood has pruned all affectation from his directing style, leaving a movie that feels straight and true. Boston
4.5
Letters investigates this deep mystery through two characters who dont really believe in it. Smh
5.0
SO WHY THIS AND NOT FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS: The two films are bookends, theres no question about that, but where it seems that Clint Eastwood could not ..
5.0
Watanabes noble countenance and Ninomiyas genial smile reveal the depth of personality of a land often reduced to clumsy stereotypes. Toronto Star
2.0
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4.5
But, from the other end of the gun barrel, this reverse take on the six week hell in the Pacific emerges as the better of the two films. Reel Talk Reviews
4.5
Most war films of the past always drew a distinct line between the good and the bad. Reel Talk Reviews
3.5
A lot of the beats are a bit too familiar from previous entries in the series, which isnt surprising given that this is the fifth film to play off the .. Q Network
3.0
This moral revisionism will have its attractions in an era of American self doubt. Daily Mail
4.5
Indeed, the film is frequently gruelling, just like the noisy and terrifying reality.
1.5
CO2, however, is a harmless natural substance, so CO2 extraction doesnt result in residual solvent contamination. Observer
5.0
Pronouncement Time: I dont usually do this because I think you need to let time elapse before calling something one of the best things in years.But th .. Movies
4.0
AN INVOLVING WARTIME EPIC Eastwood directs his performers with great skill, and brings a weary, astringent eye to the carnage that unfolds on Iwo Jima .. Bbc
4.5
Does have a genuine emotional core and makes Flags of our Fathers look like a better film. But whether or not its a great film; the jury is still out. Bbc
4.0
Who has the spare time to consume all this fabulous entertainment, other than Donald Rumsfeld Time
3.8
In every way possible, Letters from Iwo Jima is the superior effort and precisely the kind of film Flags of Our Fathers should have been. The Movie Boy
4.0
Whether or not this is true remains unknown, but does it really matter Bullz-Eye
4.5
War is hell, and although we knew that already, the need to restate it is justified in this moving, gripping and pertinent drama. The Irish Times
3.0
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5.0
The laconic, pitiless way Eastwood shot the violence of battle underscores what a waste it all is, underlines the futility that so many have to die be .. Calendar Live
3.0
Also the gore is absolutely excessive.After about the hundredth suicide by grenade it no longer seems like the gore is making a point about the insani .. Hollywood
2.0
Ironically, the challenge of directing a Japanese language film with a non English speaking cast seems to have brought out the very best in Eastwood. Seattle Pi
2.5
Clint Eastwoods revisionism painting America in a bad light and turning these zealots into boon chaps wont change the facts, but it will influence the .. Tony Medley
5.0
Never has a Hollywood filmmaker dared to examine a single battle in such intimately absorbing detail as the Oscar winning legend does with these two, .. Movie Freak
4.3
The Bottom Line: Eastwood takes classic war film traditions and gives them a unique slant by shifting the viewpoint to the other side, while showcasin ..
4.4
Its an exciting war movie.Its a tour of life on the front lines (like Saving Private Ryan). Movie Habit
4.4
Look, the real wonder of WW84 is that this maybe isnt the worst thing about it. Film Freak Central
3.1
What could have been a claustrophobic Japanese variation of Das Boot is a missed opportunity instead. Boxoffice Magazine
3.0
Better than almost any other filmmaker, Eastwood understands that the storys words and actions alone get the point across that war is hell, even for t .. E Online
3.0
But, though surely an Oscar contender, Letters from Iwo Jimas expert direction and affecting acting still cant avoid a marked lack of any longstanding ..
4.0
With four nominations, dont be surprised if it vanquishes Babel, The Departed or even our very own The Queen to win Best Picture.Beautifully shot, epi .. Mirror
3.5
No one has ever said that Eastwood, as a filmmaker, lacks courage. Varia Gate
5.0
To my very great surprise and pleasure, I discovered that not only was this movie quite good, it was actually one of the best movies of 2006 and well .. Three Movie Buffs
4.4
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5.0
Whatever your conclusions about the ultimate success or failure of Eastwoods grand experiment in dual perspective, Watanabes noble, tormented gravitas .. The Stranger
3.8
...its hard to think of a war film that works so hard to make us fall in love with the enemy, and to airbrush their portraits. Its one thing to learn .. Christianity Today
3.8
A stronger United Nations is the preference of a majority of people around the world, a new survey by Press Trust Of India says. News Blaze
2.5
Some may still see it that way today they should see this film.Clints point is well made. Ross Anthony
4.4
Billy Bob phones in a below par performance but still blows his young rival off the screen. The Sun
5.0
a stark masterpiece, rife with irony, pathos, and melancholy for the waste of it all. Killer Movie Reviews
5.0
In the first U.S. film to dramatize WWII solely from an enemy perspective, Eastwood and screenwriter Iris Yamashita remarkably straddled a line of vil .. The Filmy Ap
5.0
Much as already been made about the pride and honor of the Japanese, but as a people they have rarely, if ever, been depicted as fully human character .. Big Picture Big Sound
5.0
Either way, its unprecedented, a sorrowful and savagely beautiful elegy that can stand in the company of the greatest antiwar movies. News Week
4.0
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3.0
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4.5
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie. Window To The Movies
5.0
No more than it is to applaud Eastwoods film, which depicts our own humanity as one of combats lasting victims. Chron
5.0
Indeed the war movie, whatever its setting, is part of a genre that has its roots in the Trojan War. Film Guardian
3.0
It is very different; despite some spectacular battle scenes, it is more muted, more restrained, even faintly anti climactic. Film Guardian
4.4
Letters from Iwo Jima may be almost completely in Japanese with subtitles, but it still comes from a traditional style of American filmmaking. Scene Stealers
5.0
Eastwoods provocative exploration of the Iwo Jima conflict is a historically educational lesson and, more importantly, a debate opening comment on our .. Or Lando Weekly
5.0
The reversal is unsettling to say the least, and exactly as intended, but then fascinating, absorbing and deeply affecting. Wsj
3.0
If Flags of Our Fathers is about heroism why we need it, how we create it then Letters From Iwo Jima is about honor, its importance, and its folly. Guide Live
4.0
The most important film of 2006 was Clint Eastwoods Letters from Iwo Jima. In 20 years Letters from Iwo Jima will be a classic. Tony Mack
4.0
Eastwood shows no signs of letting up. Having directed the last great western with 1992s Unforgiven, he now presides over one of the best war films of .. Film4
4.5
...a sad, lonely, melancholic film, for all its brutal action and bloodshed, with moments of sheer poetry and others of heartbreaking grief. Movie Metropolis
2.0
Joins Gallipoli and Black Hawk Down on a spare list of works that try to deal with war on its own terms rather than Hollywoods. Film Blather
4.5
Shidou Nakamura These are the same sentiments Eastwood expressed about the American soldiers in Flags of Our Fathers.Knowing he may die, Saigo is stil .. Review Express
4.4
The almost suffocating feeling of confinement in the caves comes through vividly, and Eastwood establishes a fragile atmosphere dominated by hollow ho .. James Sanford on Film
4.4
Eastwood has made a film that is thoughtful, poignant, touching, and philosophical. It stands as one of the best works in his long, illustrious career .. Aisle Seat
3.5
Companion piece to Flags Of Our Fathers (and frankly, this is a much better film). The message I got from these two movies is that war is hell, no mat .. TheMovieChicks.com
4.4
Eastwood is a master of the extended look (this comes from the two directors he acknowledges as his own masters, Sergio Leone and Don Siegel), the loo .. Boston Phoenix
2.0
Watanabe is appropriately noble and regal, if a bit stiff at times; but it is Ninomiyas grunt soldier who gives the film its soul. Alternately philoso .. Detroit News
2.0
In the 40s, American movies showed Japanese saying Banzai. Total vocabulry. Finally, a picture that shows Japanese soldiers as human beings. Compuserve
5.0
But Letters isnt trying to be about whos right and whos wrong this is a film about humans killing humans, where American and Japanese alike are capabl .. The Dispatch (Lexington, N ..
5.0
Eastwood has achieved something remarkable with this pair of films: Together, they make a war story without an enemy. Seattle Times
2.0
The films are masterpieces of modern cinema, filled with filmic poetry of bright, medium, and dark images that express Eastwoods talent as a director .. Film Critic 1963 Typepad
5.0
Some are intensely brutal, others are bittersweet and sentimental. Juicy Cerebellum
3.0
Some will make compelling arguments that Eastwood doesnt give us a complete picture of the Japanese or their atrocities, but the director still is bet .. Week In Rewind
5.0
What is the rarest achievement in Hollywood.To me, its a director releasing two GREAT movies in the same year. Crazed Fan Boy
2.0
Its choppy home front scenes about the U.S. propaganda machine plunged into maudlin melodrama. Articles Baltimore Sun
4.5
Leaders behind the effort to create the city of St. George say theyll submit their signed petition for incorporation to the parishs Registrar of Voter .. 2 The Advocate
4.4
More affecting than the majority of war films, presenting fighters as scared men with a purpose and letters as love you can hold in your hand. Chicago Tribune
4.0
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4.5
These moments are affecting and underscore the horror of war, its terrible waste. World Socialist Web Site
4.0
Eastwoods direction is a thing of beauty, blending unblinking ferocity with fragile delicacy. Brandon Fibbs
1.5
Letters from Iwo Jima ultimately dragged on too long to maintain my interest. San Diego Metropolitan
5.0
Eastwood has crafted the best war movie since Saving Private Ryan. Madison
3.8
Grimly beautiful Eastwoods images are as stark as the black and rocky beaches of Iwo Jima itself. But grim is really the operative word for this movie .. Chud
1.5
You realize how very young many of these men were, and how ill suited to be turned into killing machines. Ny Books
3.0
continues to fight righteous battles to remind us of basic human values and to look at old issues from a fresh perspective Old School Reviews
3.8
By painting enemy combatants in distinctly human tones the film offers up a rare insight into the motivations and machinations of these (mostly) young .. Imdb
5.0
Its a masterpiece of honesty, integrity, understanding, and wisdom.
2.0
Its unbearable to witness.What Eastwood has achieved here is authentic and, at select times, achingly humane and riveting. English Oh My News
4.4
At a time in life when many men are looking forward to... simply enjoying their retirement, Eastwood is continuing to turn out the best work of his lo .. Time Of India
4.5
Its interesting to note that there is more emotional honesty in Clint Eastwoods Letters from Iwo Jima than from his earlier sister project Flags of Ou ..
5.0
Letters from Iwo Jima connects us to the hardships, dreams, joys, and tragedies of Japanese soldiers who have far more in common with their Yankee cou .. Democratand Chronicle
4.5
Most war films of the past always drew a distinct line between the good and the bad. Franks Reel Reviews
5.0
Taken together, both Fathers and Iwo Jima cohere into a fascinating discussion that dismantles many of the tried and true themes of the genre, undersc ..
3.3
And there still museums with pay what you wish admission, if not every day, then on certain days weekly or monthly.You just have to know who offers wh .. Time Out Ny
5.0
Letters From Iwo Jima is just like every other war film and nothing like any other war film. Arizona Daily Star
3.5
For the second time in one year, Eastwood manages to awe the world by stating the obvious, yet he does so in highly artistic fashion, masterfully shot .. Movies for the Masses
2.0
Watching the film, I had admiration for what Eastwood and his writers were attempting, but I remained at arms length. Im not entirely sure why I could .. Murphys Movie Reviews
4.5
Many will find it to be a critics darling, languid and lacking in humor. But for me, it was a powerful experience.
4.5
... Eastwood takes this film out of the realm of a typical war picture to illuminate the boundless nature of the human spirit, which extends far beyon .. DVD Review
4.5
A poetic and meditatively paced story that unfolds as an alternately mournful and horrifically detailed mood piece, humanizing historical stereotypes. Wbai
4.0
As every epic demands, theres gore aplenty, but apart from the obligatory floggings, ritual suicides and trigger happy Americans, the human detail is .. thelondonpaper
1.5
Doesnt have much to say except that Japanese are human beings, too. Independent (UK)
3.0
Eastwood and his cinematographer Tom Stern have done a superb and possibly unique job in showing both sides of this dreadful battle, and the pair of f .. Independent (UK)
1.5
In Letters, the glossy romanticism of history crumbles before our very eyes. House Next Door
3.0
As a comedy it can never sustain itself, and while there are moments to enjoy, it is all pretty forgettable, which is a shame because the concept rema .. Sunday Mirror (UK)
1.5
Both technical grace and an efficient ensemble smooth over some...clunky plotting.
4.4
Only an overstuffed middle, battle heavy section keeps Letters From Iwo Jima from being an elite movie.
4.0
Just a little too nice and tidy for its own good, and thats a pity, because in many ways it may be Eastwoods most accomplished directing job.



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