As Private Leonard “Gomer Pyle” Lawrence, D’Onofrio encapsulates the impact that military brainwashing can have on soldiers and their mental health in a way that is better than expected

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2024

What happened to the Kubrick who used to slip in sly, subtle jokes and little editing tricks? This may be his worst movie.

| Sep 13, 2023

Full Metal Jacket is violent, caustic, ironic, and cold, an amoral object formed from a camera gliding majestically across slow-motion carnage while refusing to blink an eye or shed a tear.

| Dec 7, 2022

Kubrick is trying to make a movie about madness and chaos, but he won't give in to the chaos.

| Aug 9, 2022

The most horrifying moments of Full Metal Jacket are those in which the young Americans gladly assist in their own damnation.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 9, 2022

A hard-hitting movie laced with moments of dark humour and brimming with social commentary, Full Metal Jacket is viewed as one of the all-time great war movie.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 24, 2020

Kubrick had a way of making the audience become invested in the characters of his films and created some truly memorable ones.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 22, 2020

It was a gross injustice that Ermey was not nominated for his tremendous performance.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 8, 2020

A nicely contrasting soundtrack, intense action sequences, mesmerizing sets, excellent photography, and believable characters contribute to this poignant thriller.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 6, 2020

Full Metal Jacket is a master study in indoctrination and fundamental identity shifts. Every moment of the film builds and builds on Kubrick's ideas...

| Mar 31, 2020

We look to the director for some judgment, or even an indication of his opinion, as to whether his carnage artists are born or made; but we don't get it.

| Apr 9, 2019

An electrifying opening segment that could stand alone as one of Kubrick's great films, except it's only about 45 minutes long.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 9, 2019

Full Metal Jacket seems further proof that Kubrick is still trapped in self-pleasing cinematic exercise.

| Nov 6, 2017

Full Metal Jacket, produced, directed and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, is not an easy film to watch, but from the first frame to the last, it is a riveting one.

| Oct 9, 2016

One of the classics of war cinema, it's not nearly as good as its legend suggests. But it's pretty good.

| Original Score: 1-5 | Oct 25, 2015

[Kubrick's] genius, and perhaps burden, is to see the insanity in us all and to make it seem so terrifyingly normal.

Full Review | Jun 24, 2015

...a justifiably iconic war film.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 9, 2015

One of Kubrick's foremost triumphs, a genuinely challenging and uncomfortable war film

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jul 5, 2014

No amount of stylistic analysis, however, is likely to explain why a man would devote more than three years of his life to making a war movie in which violent death isn't meant to move us. Does Kubrick really think we're not callous enough about war?

| Jun 21, 2013

While its message is simple -- innocent young Americans are taught to be machine-like killers -- its technique is extraordinary.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 21, 2013