Historical and educational, They Shall Not Grow Old, is a must see, thought-provoking documentary.

| Oct 11, 2024

Jackson applied colorization, audio effects, and digital enhancement to make newsreel footage from the Imperial War Museum’s archives bring real-life glimpses of British military service during WW1 to eerily immediate new life.

| Mar 12, 2024

[A] moving tribute to the men who served.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 17, 2021

They Shall Not Grow Old isn't just a compelling motion picture; it's an important slice of cinema.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 2, 2021

By itself, the footage shown in They Shall Not Grow Old is not all that grand, but Jackson has made it so with 21st century technology, bringing to life a time that should not be forgotten.

| Apr 9, 2021

They Shall Not Grow Old is a must-see record of a terrible conflict.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 25, 2021

Jackson was right to double down on his stereoscopic colorization. The sheer audacity alone is worthy of praise.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 15, 2021

This is an extraordinary experience which has rightly earned plaudits around the world. Jackson has used modern post-production techniques to bring alive World War II in all its terrible glory.

| Mar 9, 2021

It's groundbreaking on its technological features and will be remembered for that as a profound reinforcement. But it's the empathetic solidarity and resilience that reign supreme.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2020

The soldiers of WWI are here little more than motion-capture figures for Jackson's team to drape with colour and sound and stereoscopy. An army of Gollums: not wearied by age perhaps, but certainly contemned by technology.

| Apr 21, 2020

What a superb way to remember the centenary of the end of the war. Hail Peter.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2019

They Shall Not Grow Old is, at once, a technical marvel of historical importance, a deeply moving personal story of real-world heroes, and a timeless reminder that the atrocities of war must necessarily be avoided at all costs.

| Original Score: A | Dec 11, 2019

In the now-total absence of those who witnessed the War, They Shall Not Grow Old feels like it will open audiences up for a new type of human connection with that era of our past.

| Dec 11, 2019

No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, it's worth a look, to help make sense of the past and the role it played in creating our current world.

| Dec 11, 2019

It's like sending a 21st century filmmaking crew back to the turn of the last century to create an epic tale of intimately personal scope.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 10, 2019

You're liable to leave the theater with the strains of "Mademoiselle from Armentieres" ringing in your ears and visuals that will haunt you, possibly for years.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 10, 2019

They Shall Not Grow Old proves surprisingly involving, given that 50 percent of the footage involves closeups of British tommies, who've clearly never heard the word "dentistry," chomping on cigarettes.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 10, 2019

This is as close as we can get to a full immersion into one of the most horrifying and ultimately pointless wars in modern history.

| Dec 10, 2019

It's very compelling to hear these men talk about what they went through and the horrors of World War I... Very interesting, very moving film.

| Dec 7, 2019

This film is an indelible tribute to the soldiers who, as they put it, had a job of work to do, and did it.

| Jul 11, 2019