[An] outstanding dramatization of real-life emergencies, with a nerve-jangling, documentary-type immediacy.

| Oct 21, 2020

Although originally produced for British television in 2002, Paul Greengrass's vivid depiction of a violent turning point in the so-called Troubles in Northern Ireland was released in the U.S. in theaters.

| Original Score: A+ | May 7, 2013

Powerful retelling of 1972 demonstrations.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 22, 2010

Time has offered the Troubles perspective, investigation and pop-culture outlets (U2′s "Sunday Bloody Sunday"). But Paul Greengrass's film spoke to how reason meant absolutely nothing when rage reigned on either side of the line.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 25, 2010

Stunning.

| Mar 11, 2008

Greengrass sacrifices character and plot to a chilling impressionistic stylization.

| Mar 11, 2008

Watching director Paul Greengrass's explosive Bloody Sunday, you have to remind yourself at moments that you're not looking at a documentary.

| Nov 1, 2007

Greengrass has deliberately chosen to provoke an emotional rather than intellectual response with his film -- but sometimes provocation is much preferred to the British media's maintenance of the status quo.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

It's rare that a dramatic film convincingly captures the chaotic, confusing, fast-paced nature of real life -- much less real life in a crisis.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 6, 2006

Bloody Sunday demonstrates an historical thesis formulated in retrospect, which fits oddly with Greengrass's continuous-present technique.

| Jun 24, 2006

Comparisons with The Battle of Algiers are not inappropriate.

| Jun 24, 2006

Intense and difficult, but rewarding.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 4, 2006

As atuaes viscerais e a direo pseudo-documental recriam com contudncia um dos episdios mais revoltantes da histria da luta irlandesa contra a dominao britnica.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 9, 2005

Captures the horrors of a civil rights march taking a wrong turn in the Northern Ireland city of Londonderry on Sunday, January 30, 1972.

| Original Score: B | Feb 20, 2004

This is tragedy in its rawest form: bloody chaos I couldn't help but watch. . . . The tension is palpable and the brutality is immediate.

Full Review | Dec 1, 2003

The immediacy is overwhelming...an extraordinarily powerful film.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 15, 2003

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 28, 2003

An amazing feat of movie making, "Bloody Sunday" leaves you stunned.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Apr 24, 2003

No victories here, but Greengrass' film is a triumph in anguish.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2003

The audience is placed right in the center of events in a multi-sensual, horrific 'you are there' virtual reality of social protest that grabs you and never lets go.

Full Review | Jan 19, 2003