Powerful retelling of 1972 demonstrations.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 22, 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

Comparisons with The Battle of Algiers are not inappropriate.

| Jun 24, 2006

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

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

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

As a terrifying example of what can happen when too many angry people are crowded into too small a space, it's a gripper.

| Nov 9, 2002

A movie to remember.

| Nov 1, 2002

Bloody Sunday not only is a classic study in the way things can go devastatingly, violently wrong, but also a lesson in the importance of not letting that happen.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 1, 2002

The handheld camerawork and bleached-out color palette suggest something more akin to combat footage, and candid moments recorded on the sly give Bloody Sunday a chilling realism.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 31, 2002

Little more than a well-mounted history lesson.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2002

Director Paul Greengrass does an excellent job at crafting a documentary feel for the story, complete with grainy film, jumpy shots, wavering sound and naturally gray light.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 26, 2002

Greengrass (working from Don Mullan's script) forgoes the larger socio-political picture of the situation in Northern Ireland in favour of an approach that throws one in the pulsating thick of a truly frightening situation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 25, 2002

Greengrass has achieved such immediacy that it's hard to believe that what we're watching isn't really unfolding before our eyes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 25, 2002

As an act of filmmaking, it is superb: A sense of immediate and present reality permeates every scene.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 25, 2002

It's an extraordinary adrenaline-pumping immersion into historical events, and goes along way to explain the bitterness that has resounded from that day.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 25, 2002

Rarely do gunshots elicit such shock. Rarely does violence feel so horrific.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 24, 2002

Would that Greengrass had gone a tad less for grit and a lot more for intelligibility.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 18, 2002