The most fitting and laudable word to compliment the "Journey’s End" ensemble is maturity. Each of the principal players exudes some growth of that trait both on and off camera.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2023

You don't have to be a student of history to know that the trenches during World War I were horrific places to fight. Journey's End does not attempt to glorify that field of battle, but it also never quite fully commits to the true horror either...

| Mar 24, 2021

Stripes back to just the essentials and delves deep into the souls of those forced onto the front lines of doom.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 19, 2020

Sherriff's long, wordy exchanges remain as beautifully written and quietly powerful as ever. However, director Saul Bibb has his work cut out sustaining a strong cinematic momentum.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 8, 2020

Dibb's sensitive incorporation of, or tribute to, traces of archive imagery is intriguing and very satisfying.

| Apr 21, 2020

Director Saul Dibb doesn't quite succeed in making the drama feel fresh, but this is a sensitive and handsomely performed adaptation.

| Apr 20, 2020

Bleak stuff...however, it's powerfully moving.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 30, 2020

The rat-infested trenches of Northern France are no place for a boy in the spring of 1918. But that's where Second Lieutenant Raleigh naively requests to be sent.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 7, 2019

If you're claustrophobic, best to leave Journey's End off your viewing list, but all others will find treasure in these trenches.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 16, 2019

I couldn't believe how much time was spent debating eating military rations.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 28, 2019

A worthy war movie that's too held back by its stage origins.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 22, 2019

A sober, grim and powerful war story.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 28, 2019

Exceeds expectations and Bettany is sublime.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 24, 2019

The period recreation is vivid, especially when the whistle blows and the men climb over the top and into a battlefield strewn with barbed wire, bomb craters and mud-soaked corpses. It's a gruelling drama, yet a worthwhile one.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 25, 2018

The horrors of war are on display in this tense and affecting film in which we are taken in the trenches and into the lives of the men who wait for the inevitable. Director Saul Dibb has made a sensitive film...

| Nov 11, 2018

If it's not pacifist, it's certainly a profoundly anti-war statement about men under ultimate stress. One hundred years on, it's never too soon, never too late for that idea.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 8, 2018

It remains pretty damn powerful even if some of its thunder has been slightly stolen by the mighty army of war movies that have come before.

| Nov 8, 2018

A terrific companion piece (and Armistice Day weekend double bill) to Peter Jackson's similarly set documentary They Shall Not Grow Old.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 6, 2018

Journey's End is a powerful and moving tribute to the men who fought in the trenches.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 2, 2018

The sheer horror of the first World War is captured in sobering detail in this quietly moving adaptation of a powerfully emotive play of the same name.

| Original Score: 17/20 | Sep 30, 2018