Journey's End

Name: Journey's End
Director: Saul Dibb
Released: 2017

Synopsis

Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.

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The Playlist
Journey’s End is about as good an adaptation as you can imagine of the material, and a film with compassion and humanity that goes far beyond its perhaps uncompromisingly prestige-y exterior.
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Total Film
Claflin and Bettany stand out among an impressive ensemble in a harrowing, powerful WW1 drama well worth enduring.
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Empire
An outstanding cast savours performing a play that has stood the test of time. Avoiding sentimentality, this is a valuable rejoinder to those who would sugar-coat mass slaughter.
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CineVue
Despite paying no attention to events beyond the trenches, Journey’s End is nonetheless deeply political in its depiction of the class tensions that characterised the war.
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CineVue
Journey’s End is a worthy adaptation, offering a sombre psychological depiction of innocence lost.
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The Guardian
The first world war is one of the 20th century’s oldest, grimmest tales of futility and slaughter. Dibb and his excellent cast put new passion into it.
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Screen Daily
It is a governing sense of restraint that lends the film such an emotional kick, and breathes fresh life into an old classic.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Although well made and acted, the real question surrounding this microscopic look at men enduring the severe pressure of trench warfare is what relevance it may have for a modern audience. The answer is, probably not much.