Chariots Of Fire is one of the glories of British cinema...

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 8, 2024

Never, with the possible exception of Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible, has running looked so cinematic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 26, 2024

The opening scene, thanks in large part to Vangelis’ immortal score, is cinematic beauty in the highest form.

| Jun 27, 2023

It is a film that understands the sweetness of victory...

| Feb 27, 2023

This is a beautiful, unhurried film that unfolds a vision of the past that reminds us there once existed a time of innocence and tradition.

| Jul 20, 2022

The picture is a piece of technological lyricism held together by the glue of simpleminded heroic sentiment; basically, its appeal is in watching a couple of guys win their races.

| Jul 18, 2022

A handsome, well-acted, frequently charming film that would not be out of place on Masterpiece Theater. In other words, it is precisely what art-house audiences want at the moment -- a cautious, "distinguished," slightly boring good movie.

| Jul 18, 2022

Directing his first feature, Hugh Hudson has come up with a rare film that will surprise you with its beauty and magnificence of spirit.

| Jul 18, 2022

There's no tension in this movie, no grit or suspense. And though one basks in the details of Cambridge life just after World War I, our pleasure depends on our believing what we see, and Colin Welland's screenplay rings false at every turn.

| Jul 18, 2022

If our emotions have been manipulated by the medium, all I can say is I like the feeling. It's a drugless high, and here's a film that should be made illegal to miss.

| Jul 18, 2022

Ultimately, despite the flaws, Hudson orchestrates our emotions so skillfully that we're deeply stirred by the time the film ends.

| Jul 18, 2022

An immensely attractive, oddly moving and immaculately acted picture, which has a generosity and warmth that rarely stray into sentimentality.

| Jul 18, 2022

While the chance may have been missed to make that elusive article, the memorable film, we have, instead, a very amiable one, with the period nostalgically caught.

| Jul 18, 2022

I said the film was inspirational and I won't take that back. But I'd much prefer to remember it as solidly professional throughout, knit together with real skill and only technically mundane when it comes to the actual Olympic finals.

| Jul 18, 2022

Chariots of Fire is in most respects the kind of picture for which we have been looking to the British cinema, in vain, for many years. It is a film of substance and intelligence, made on a realistic budget, without any signs of parsimony.

| Jul 18, 2022

Chariots of Fire is very satisfying film, if an undemanding one... An additional pleasure is the haunting score by Vangelis, which is destined to become one of the great classics of musical composition for the cinema.

| Jul 18, 2022

If Chariots of Fire, with its splendid photography and firm-jawed heroes, is a fantasy (though one based on fact) and apparently designed to pander to national delusions, it does so gently and endearingly.

| Jul 18, 2022

Chariots of Fire is, like all of producer David Puttnam's films, exceptionally well photographed and acted with verve by a fresh crop of young performers. Yet all the film presents are miscellaneous incidents without any real connecting tissue.

| Jul 18, 2022

It has a happy combination of qualities that make it universally appealing. There is an irresistible story about battlers fighting their way to the top. It is finely acted, with likable men driven by credible forces.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 18, 2022

Hugh Hudson's Chariots of Fire is a masterpiece -- the finest film on sports ever made... The film celebrates the seemingly infinite limits of the human spirit when inflamed with a holy zeal.

| Jul 18, 2022