Apocalypse has the expressive extravagance of a Wagner opera-and not merely because the swooping helicopter scene is set to the "Ride of the Valkyries."

| Sep 22, 2024

This is still magnificent filmmaking and story-telling on every level. Apocalypse Now is one of the great films because it is about every war ever fought and at the same time is about much more than men in combat.

| Sep 22, 2024

It's wonderful to see this hallucinatory folly-cum-near masterpiece again on the big screen.

| Sep 22, 2024

Coppola's sprawling, harrowing war story is not to be missed.

| Sep 22, 2024

Whether the additional scenes greatly enhance an already exhilirating experience is debatable, but they are certainly worth the wait.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 22, 2024

No matter what you may think of Brando's eccentric interpretation of the demented Kurtz, you can't take your eyes off him.

| Sep 22, 2024

Despite its commercial success, it was perhaps the last grand artistic folly that Hollywood would tolerate, and a golden age of American filmmaking soon stumbled to a close.

| Sep 22, 2024

Apocalypse Now is as good as ever.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 22, 2024

The score is wonderous, the production design solid and never overdone, and the cinematography is just wow....when it comes to a movie about war this is a real masterpiece.

| Sep 22, 2024

A paradox of beauty and horror.

| Original Score: 92/100 | Sep 22, 2024

Occasionally flaccid, incomprehensible and obtuse. Yet, it manages to overcome these flaws to stand as a fascinating study of the nature of evil in man.

| Original Score: 85/100 | Sep 22, 2024

196 minutes of some of the finest filmmaking.

| Sep 22, 2024

The movie still has the power to floor you with its stunning sounds and imagery.

| Sep 22, 2024

Apocalypse Now is one of the great American movies of all time and perhaps the single best war film ever made.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 22, 2024

The result is a different experience. The bulk of the film is still there, of course, but the characters are fleshed out in more detail.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 3, 2024

...a punishing, poetic, beautiful, horrible film about man's inhumanity to man...

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 18, 2021

One has an uneasy feeling that every time a group of Americans forms, violence will erupt. And Kurtz is the crowning figure in this universal mayhem.

| Feb 16, 2021

It's about the absurd tragedies that occur when a rational strategy or cultural institution is guided by humans and their inherent irrationalities.

| Jun 30, 2020

Does it strive too hard for greatness? Sure. But it's not likely that you'll see another movie this year with so much heart-stopping, gut-churning greatness in it.

| Mar 8, 2018

I'm not convinced that the additions strengthens his story-they humanize Sheen's character, a figure more interesting as a dead man walking-but they also fill out his psychedelic odyssey with a heft and a scope befitting an epic.

| Dec 10, 2016