Gallipoli Reviews
This is a stunning film, widely acclaimed and rightfully considered today to be one of Australia’s all-time best
| Original Score: 10/10 | Aug 16, 2024
For its flaws, Gallipoli is consistently interesting, and attractive to look at.
| Sep 9, 2022
It maintains interest throughout, without ever being a particularly gripping, dramatic experience.
| May 13, 2020
Peter Weir concludes his movie by leaving promises unfulfilled. But it's precisely that absurdity, that emptiness, that he had set out to communicate. [Full Review in Spanish]
| Aug 23, 2019
Gallipoli, like most recent Australian films such as Breaker Morant and The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, is fastidiously well-made and furthers the boast that Australian actors, down to the smallest bit player, can do no wrong.
| Jul 19, 2019
There was a humanity in Gallipoli that moved me because it wasn't just a clinical exercise but a story of 2 young men who wanted to run but ended up being unable to outrace the foolish decisions of their generals.
| Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 28, 2019
Gallipoli is a predictable war movie filled with all the gung-ho cliches of the genre -- and I loved it.
| Jun 29, 2018
It moved me so terribly.
| Jul 7, 2017
Gallipoli was, and is, a triumph.
| Jul 7, 2017
Gallipoli remains one of the better World War I dramas yet made, well worth revisiting.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 7, 2017
Although we've seen this story before, it is told exceptionally well here.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 7, 2017
Weir's objective was not to show us Gallipoli through a documentary lens, but with an artist's vision. He has succeeded magnificently.
| Jul 7, 2017
One of the most elegiac anti-war films ever made.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 7, 2017
Classy and lifeless.
| Jul 7, 2017
A haunting and moving tribute to the Australians who sacrificed their lives in WWI.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 7, 2017
Few films impact the national psyche with as much force as Peter Weir's 1981 hit.
| Jul 7, 2017
Richly deserves its place at the top.
| Original Score: A- | Jul 7, 2017
An anti-war movie at heart, but it's also flush with patriotic pride.
| Original Score: A | Jul 7, 2017
One of Australia's enduring cinematic artefacts.
| Jul 7, 2017
Admirably conveys the chaos and waste of warfare.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 7, 2017