Eisenstein relies on editing to create the action, a theory of montage copied in other films...

| Mar 8, 2023

Potemkin tells, with a good deal of striking detail and with considerable pictorial effectiveness, a stern narrative of mutiny and revolt.

| Oct 8, 2020

Potemkin is a complete break from anything hitherto known in the art of the motion picture.

| Apr 10, 2020

Because Battleship Potemkin is an appeal to fellow-feeling and collective action, it is only right that the restoration work creates a more immersive film, one that places no barriers between a 21st-century audience and its monumentally powerful imagery.

| Mar 18, 2020

What was once the darling of the cinematic few has become the masterpiece of the masses (you should pardon the expression).

| Jan 8, 2020

The thing that matters is that Soviet [cinema], while being propagandist, contains a use of all the different branches of film-making which is recognised and practised in no other country.

| Dec 12, 2015

The most brilliant of all Soviet silent films.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 21, 2013

The cinema's first modernist... was the Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein. As his most famous work, Battleship Potemkin, from 1925, shows, his analytical, quasi-scientific methods bore the mark of both aesthetic and political upheavals.

| Aug 21, 2013

The director displays a vivid imagination and an artistic appreciation of motion picture values.

| Aug 29, 2011

For all Potemkin's rabble-rousing propaganda, Eisenstein's aestheticism is everywhere apparent.

| Aug 29, 2011

Potemkin is a vital viewing experience that transcends its landmark/milestone status.

| May 1, 2011

Eisenstein's film still has a hypnotic urgency.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 28, 2011

Don't be put off by its highbrow reputation, this is essential cinema.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 28, 2011

Who needs Avatar in 3D when you can have this?

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 28, 2011

Nearly 90 years on, Eisenstein's masterpiece is still guaranteed to get the pulse racing.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 26, 2011

It is a knockout.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 17, 2011

A work of straightforward emotion and pulse-quickening tension.

| Jan 12, 2011

For a piece of propaganda, this has a lot more artfulness than you'll recall, replete with quiet moments of public mourning and a stirring flag-hoisting (dyed red on the new print, too).

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 12, 2011

Sergei Eisenstein's masterpiece is a persistently political work salvaged by its unforgettable grasp of motion.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 10, 2011

Battleship Potemkin is agitprop, but cinematically magnificent agitprop...

| Apr 26, 2010