Paths of Glory was too sobering to be a popular success, but it established Kubrick as a leading director.

| Mar 12, 2024

The director Stanley Kubrick and the producer-star Kirk Douglas anticipated the countercultural energy of the 1960s with this angry anti-war parable.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 1, 2024

...the real enemy here is the French officer class who, from their opulently appointed chateau, use infantry as pawns in pursuit of personal promotion and in covering up of their own highly consequential failures.

| Feb 19, 2024

Arguably the greatest antiwar film ever made, Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory feels like a mule kick to the stomach no matter how many times one has seen it (in my case, too many to recall).

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 25, 2022

The film also excels thanks to Kubrick’s visual choices particularly his decision to shoot in black and white. It is perfect considering the harshness of the material and the morally murky waters we navigate through.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2022

Language issues notwithstanding, Stanley Kubrick certainly knows what he's doing with Paths of Glory.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2022

Mr. Kubrick has not been able to inject into figures which are literary and alien from the rough vitality which so naturally flowed [in The Killing]. Nevertheless, Paths of Glory in its authority, its piercingness, is an extraordinary film.

| Aug 9, 2022

I can't even begin to imagine how Kubrick made this movie. I was perplexed the entire time. An absolute masterpiece. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jul 7, 2022

The directors most humanist film.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 21, 2022

At any time, fashionable or not, it is a disturbing plea against the horror and senselessness of war.

| Dec 13, 2021

Paths of Glory is finally a captivating work, both weakened and reinforced by its Americanism -- but a very diluted, Hollywood Americanism, at that, and therefore something of a positive force in the end.

| Dec 9, 2021

The subject matter is fictional, but it has been handled so realistically that one feels as if he is witnessing a real-life occurrence.

| Nov 17, 2021

Stanley Kubrick brings a controlled power to his direction of the uncompromisingly grim events, and Kirk Douglas, who produced the film, finds a most congenial role as an uncorrupted French colonel fighting for his men.

| Nov 17, 2021

Flashes of angry humor and a final gleam of hope relieve grimness.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 17, 2021

That is the shocking story and it is told with a stark realism that quite literally gives one the shivers.

| Nov 17, 2021

For those who like to contemplate politics and philosophy through well-written narrative drama, it is a welcome distraction.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 7, 2021

I usually don't respond to Stanley Kubrick's films positively but I was moved by Paths of Glory and am very happy to have had the chance to see it.

| Apr 1, 2021

An eye-opening, thought-provoking, powerful war picture that isn't so much anti-war as it is anti-politics, anti-corruption, and anti-authoritarianism.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Aug 23, 2020

Paths of Glory is something like an invitation to disobedience, to mistrust those who are in a position of authority. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Mar 10, 2020

Customers impatient of anything but escapist entertainment on the screen may be harshly jolted by this bleak and powerful antimilitarism drama. For less narrow viewers, it s a picture that should not be missed.

| Jan 29, 2020