...compelling subject matter that’s employed to somewhat uneven yet mostly entertaining effect by Zwick...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 30, 2025

A superbly designed tearjerker of a war epic, highlighting an often overlooked historical division entirely deserving of this big-budget, star-studded, theatrical adaptation.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 6, 2025

A rousing Civil War drama based on the true story of the 54th Massachusetts infantry, a Union regiment of black soldiers.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 26, 2024

Director Edward Zwick stages some remarkable battle sequences, but the film’s core rests in the complicated relationships between its characters.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 9, 2024

Even though Glory still isn't a completely accurate depiction of Shaw or his troops during the Civil War, it has some great scenes and shots throughout.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 6, 2024

Especially fine are Andre Braugher, Morgan Freeman, Jihmi Kennedy, Denzel Washington and Cary Elwes.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 9, 2023

[It] showed Black soldiers are worthy in the battle to fight for their own freedom and protect the Union.

| Mar 8, 2023

Glory reaches its indisputable moment of glory. [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 16, 2022

A moving piece of historical drama and an evocative human story of men whose fight wasn’t strictly reserved for the battlefield.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2022

Washington, in his best performance since the black-story-white-viewpoint misfire of Cry Freedom, is exceptionally good as a fugitive slave whose tense relationship with Matthew Broderick charges the film's emotional core.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 26, 2022

Glory leaves you with not just the sense of its characters’ triumph over injustice, but their destruction by the very system that empowered them to begin with. There’s no escaping that story, either -- even if Glory doesn’t really tell it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 25, 2022

This is the rare Hollywood blockbuster that has the gumption to tell us there really is no justice.

| Jul 25, 2022

This is a sad and gallant chapter, and a first-rate movie.

| Jul 25, 2022

Even though the 54th Massachusetts lost half of their numbers during the climactic battle, Glory remains one of the best Civil War films.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 30, 2022

GLORY is a rousing film about the American Civil War, which, in addition to its fantastic show values and actors, also tells a haunting and true story about equality, pride and self-determination.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 15, 2022

Apart from the questionable casting of the relatively lightweight Broderick in the lead role, the entirety of GLORY is a throttling, inspirational work and is second only to director Zwick's 1996 masterwork COURAGE UNDER FIRE also featuring Washington.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 22, 2022

The film's chief virtue is its spectacular choreography. The final battle... is a striking combination of dynamism and clarity.

| Jan 16, 2020

The battle scenes are graphically brutal yet lyrical. In Glory, war is equal parts hell and heaven.

| Oct 11, 2019

"Glory" is most memorable for some quieter scenes... that capture more elusive aspects of its story - and that help audiences to grasp the underlying significance of what the 54th achieved.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 30, 2019

Excellent Civil War movie for mature teens.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 15, 2010