Bloody Sunday

Name: Bloody Sunday
Director: Paul Greengrass
Released: 2002

Synopsis

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.

100
Entertainment Weekly
It's a mad cycle of arrogance and despair, and Bloody Sunday etches it onto your nervous system.
90
The New York Times
The level of accomplishment in the filmmaking is overwhelming.
90
L.A. Weekly
A scrupulously even-handed account, free of ideological or tribal partisanship, based on eyewitness accounts by survivors and the anonymous "Paras" themselves.
89
Austin Chronicle
A triumph in anguish.
88
New York Daily News
Surges forward with barely a respite. It's like watching a propane factory burn, waiting for the tanks inside to explode, and when they do, we're right in the middle of it.
88
Boston Globe
The film is conducted in a delirious cinema-verite style; most of what you see has a brutal, you-are-there immediacy. You're not merely watching history, you're engulfed by it.
88
Chicago Sun-Times
One view of what happened that day, a very effective one. And as an act of filmmaking, it is superb: A sense of immediate and present reality permeates every scene.
83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
There's no denying the skill and flair with which director Paul Greengrass has restaged this unhappy event, creating an uncanny sense of immediacy and allowing us to be a fly on the wall at a seminal '70s tragedy.