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Critical Consensus

Dueling Critics
starstarstarstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstarstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstarstar Stephen Hunter - Washington Post
starstarstarstar Robert Horton - Film.com
starstarstarstar Barbara Shulgasser - SF Examiner
starstarstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstarstarstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
starstarstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstarstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstarstarstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstarstarstar Rod Dreher - NY Post
starstarstarstar Mike Clark - USA Today
starstarstarstar Shawn Levy - Portland Oregonian
starstarstarstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstarstar Jack Mathews - Newsday

“[Director Steven Spielberg] restores passion and meaning to the genre with such whirlwind force that he seems to reimagine it entirely”

- Janet Maslin

“The graphic verisimilitude of Saving Private Ryan often overwhelms the tight human drama at its core”

- Jack Mathews

Saving Private Ryan
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A WWII troop lands on the D-Day beaches and is assigned to find the last surviving son of an American family. Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, Jeremy Davies, Matt Damon, Ted Danson, Paul Giamatti. Director: Steven Spielberg (1998, R)
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