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(1 - 35) of 35 OFCS Rating: 60% Fresh Page   1   2.5/5 "[Cruise] looks about as German as Jackie Chan would in a lederhosen."   Cut Print Review   Anders Wotzke 3/5 "If you don't mind the fluctuation in focus, if the tripwire midsection can get your through the labored last act, Valkyrie will be a solid success."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron B+ "When it hooks into the filmgoer, the mix of classic thriller tones and Singer's invigorating compositional rhythms brings Valkyrie to an impressive boil."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf C ""Valkyrie" is an anachronistic movie that wants to be less than it should be."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 3/5 "No sincere recounting of the events of July 20, 1944 could be dull, but director Bryan Singer comes dangerously close to succeeding."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger C+ "Valkyrie is an important film for purposes of partial exoneration of the German nation vis-à-vis the Third Reich; nevertheless, it's a bit of a snore."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 3/4 "...finally can't help but come off as something of a minor disappointment..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C "The film like the conceived plot to kill Hitler is commendable for its premise, but is also not well-executed."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "Thriller and action elements are low-scale and unsuccessful. Valkyrie is little more than a sketchy and narrow history lesson with less impact than it should have."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman C+ "It rarely rises to the level of entertainment you expect from a wartime thriller -- there's something rote and foregone about the whole affair."   Film.com   Eric D. Snider B- "Valkyrie's suspense isn't of the rousing, creep-to-the-edge-of-your-seat variety. The film is cold, metallic; the tension it creates is more akin to dread."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov "It's never a pretty sight when a limited performer tries to "stretch" by way of cosmetics"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce B- "A thoroughly respectable historical re-enactment, though lacking the epic scope and dramatic urgency that would make it a truly memorable one."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/4 "Bryan Singer has capably crafted this war thriller in such a way that one occasionally forgets the foregone conclusion and becomes wrapped up in the excitement of the moment."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/5 "Valkyrie's brawny and big and bold, but it's also stronger, slicker and smarter than you'd think."   Redbox   James Rocchi 6/10 "The movie proceeds to show how everything, little by little, falls out of place -- not the most thrilling of events to cover, but interesting all the same."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 2.5/4 "Talk about an impossible mission: Tom Cruise plays a German WWII Colonel with plans to assassinate Hitler in this distractingly anachronistic fact-based tale from Bryan Singer."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito "It's difficult to immerse yourself in this glossily mechanical recreation of the 1944 plot by German officers to assassinate Adolph Hitler."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   John P. McCarthy B- "...like Cruise's performance, an overall restraint keeps the heroic story behind "Valkyrie" from soaring as high as it should."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 8/10 "Actually quite good. This is a nice tense political thriller that sticks fairly closely to history."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper "I love how Singer plays the whole damn thing like the greatest suspense comic-book story ever told..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "The top priority of Bryan Singer's film is not to be a history lesson or character study but to simply be an absorbing adult suspense film."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina 1.5/4 "Incongruous vocal intonations aren't even the most significant problem plaguing Bryan Singer's film."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 3/5 "Este "revisionismo" histórico pode ser bastante prejudicial e mesmo perigoso ao se tornar um primeiro passo para algo muito mais grave e que deve ser combatido com todas as forças: a negação do Holocausto."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 2/5 " "Valkyrie" is nowhere near the outright bomb that many assumed that it would be. That said, it should be noted that the film is also nowhere near the gripping cinematic experience that it should have been given the subject matter."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2.5/5 "Another astonishing true story gets the Hollywood treatment and ends up being rather flattened in the process"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 2.5/4 "As the film eschews self-importance, it engages more directly and universally, if only in a rudimentary fashion that fails in terms of overall staying power."   Suite101.com   Rob Humanick B "Valkyrie offers something to filmgoers weary of excessive pretense, but not quite desperate enough to watch Jim Carrey flop around on the ground."   Mania.com   Rob Vaux B "It highlights a little-known historical event and gives the German Resistance the respect it deserves."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 3.5/5 "Feels like a perfectly enjoyable mid-'50s war movie that's been re-made with only the finest in modern cinematic technology."   Cinematical   Scott Weinberg 3.5/5 "a riveting military drama, a popcorn thriller masquerading as a political potboile"   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 6/10 "Singer and his collaborators have decided to present what ought to be an exciting story with frankly comic solemnity."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 3/4 "It's the perfect film for our age of reassessment and ambiguity."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 3/4 "A well-wrought thriller about one group's attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler."   Oscar Guy   Wesley Lovell "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 35) of 35 OFCS Rating: 60% Fresh Page   1