Even today, this masterpiece still carries a wallop, most notably in its stunning conclusion.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 22, 2025

If two writers and a director of the caliber responsible for [the film] had been allowed money and opportunity an original work the result would have to produce been far more exciting. What they have done has power, but it is spread all over the place.

| Oct 30, 2023

No film detailed the horrors of World War I better than Lewis Milestone’s All Quiet on the Western Front. A technically groundbreaking film that doubles as an extremely powerful anti-war message. Just as compelling in its time as it is today.

| Jun 8, 2023

All Quiet on the Western Front remains profoundly moving.

| Apr 25, 2023

The film also deserves high praise for its dynamic camera work, editing, production design, and other technical aspects that contribute to its authenticity and relatability almost one hundred years later.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Oct 27, 2022

This is one of the best films Universal had produced. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 1, 2022

Mr. Lewis Milestone, the Russian who directed it, has made the most remarkable film I have ever seen. His battles scenes alone are astonishing.

| Aug 2, 2022

Here is a photoplay which carries a wallop in every scene. Without doubt, it is as mighty a weapon against war as any infernal machine might be for conflict. After seeing it, there can be few to argue in favor of shedding the blood of any nation's youth.

| Aug 2, 2022

It enormously earns its reverence and celebrated place among war films and epics. Make no mistake. This film's resonance has not diminished with time or changing movie tastes.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 26, 2022

I went to see the film with the idea at the back of my mind that Hollywood would "murder" Remarque's powerful indictment of war. My fears were groundless, for Lewis Milestone's treatment of the story could not be improved upon.

| Feb 19, 2022

If ever there was a play aimed to bring about permanent peace, this Universal picture, directed by Lewis Milestone and produced by Junior Laemmle, is it.

| Jun 10, 2021

Its presentation of bombardments and actual fighting is without doubt the finest and most convincing thing of its kind that the screen has yet offered to the public. Another feature is the magnificent acting of all those who are concerned in the picture.

| Apr 8, 2021

In a perfect world... this would be the war movie to end all war movies, so definite and forceful is it in its anti-war stance, while also exhibiting such grace as to place it among the best cinema has to offer in any genre.

| Apr 8, 2021

A thoroughly effective cast enacts the events. There are many war scenes in All Quiet and tragedy presented directly and without sentimentality, but there Is levity and romance.

| Apr 8, 2021

All Quiet on the Western Front will grip you and leave an indelible mark upon your soul.

| Apr 8, 2021

[All Quiet on the Western Front] strips war of all its glory and bares its sickening brutality with a tragic grimness that spares nothing and leaves the spectator shaken and speechless.

| Apr 8, 2021

How it was passible to attain such remarkable accuracy in the battle episodes is a story in itself. But the delicate and intimate touches in the production are exceptionally fine, and though the story is somber there is the relieving humor here and there.

| Apr 8, 2021

Easily the greatest of the talkies.

| Apr 8, 2021

There is not much characterization in the picture. This is another reason why it is not a masterpiece. Many times it seems like a news reel actually taken at the front during 1917. It is this photographic detail which limits it as a work of art.

| Apr 8, 2021

The picture is splendidly acted. Louis Wolheim, veteran of a hundred stage battles, is a most remarkable Katcynski, and Mr. Ayres is equally effective as Paul.

| Apr 8, 2021