The authentic-sounding banter helps to round out the characters' backstories, too, but the acting isn't the best and Heyborne's limey accent borders on parody.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 21, 2025

Despite the odd clunking mis-step and aspirations above its rank, this has enough going for it to get it home safely.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 22, 2024

Thoughtful, engaging World War II movie has battle violence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2014

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 25, 2005

Director Ryan Little has mounted a remarkably effective production on what must have been a shoestring by Hollywood standards.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 6, 2005

There aren't any plot surprises in this low-budget effort, so the success of the mission from a viewer standpoint depends on how well you connect with the characters and their plight.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 29, 2005

Little makes good use of modest resources, but after a while, the film's less-is-more aesthetic grows threadbare.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 28, 2005

A worthy effort that's entirely appropriate for mainstream audiences.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 1, 2005

It's no earthshaker, but the indie film is refreshingly different from the current movie norm, it's won more than 15 awards on the festival circuit, and war-movie aficionados will find it well worth the journey to one of its four suburban venues.

| Original Score: B | Mar 24, 2005

It has the strengths and the clean lines of a traditional war movie, without high-tech special effects to pump up the noise level.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 12, 2004

It's the movie equivalent of singing 'Onward Christian Soldiers' to those already in the choir.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 11, 2004

A solid, good-looking effort that bends a bit too much toward war-film conventions.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 3, 2004

valuable in its embrace of true Christian forgiveness

Full Review | Oct 28, 2004

Though Saints and Soldiers' examination of faith, self-sacrifice and morality is not groundbreaking, it always holds our interest.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2004

A feel-good film about a small group of soldiers in WWII who are so saintly that they never curse.

| Original Score: B | Oct 20, 2004

'A gem of a movie with an unusually convincing reality base. We feel as if there's no distance between us and the fighting men. And that lack of distance is the film's point.'

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2004

It's hard to get behind characters who feel like lazy archetypes.

| Oct 15, 2004

In his feature film debut, Little uses washed-out color and a you-are-there immediacy to tell a powerful wartime tale of survival, morality and honor.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 15, 2004