Rating: 4/5 -- The whole is a more satisfactory entity than Flags of Our Fathers - and the final scene, which has veterans and relatives scouring the tunnels and caves for the buried letters, is a suitably moving coda.

Rating: 3/5 -- The moral is hardly original. The scale certainly is. Only a director of Eastwood's standing could possibly terrify enough producers into financing this decidedly foreign, but impressively chunky, white elephant. Full Review

Eastwood has made one of the most quietly devastating war movies of our time. Full Review

Rating: 3/5 -- High-minded and generous, but lacking in real passion and flair. Full Review

Rating: 4/4 -- In coming to understand the point of view of the opposing side, Eastwood has crafted two masterful and distinct films who are still inexorably intertwined that speak to the simple humanity in all of us. Full Review

Rating: 3/5 -- 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 films together already look monumental. Full Review

Not an anti-war tract or a glorification but, rather, a fair consideration of humanity that exists within the inhumanity of armed conflict. Full Review