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Paths of Glory

It explodes in the no-man's land no picture ever dared cross before!

1957 · 1h 28m · Approved Drama, War
Directed by Stanley Kubrick

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Overview

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

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All reviews
96%
Tomatometer
Fresh

More than 20 years after Mr. Cobb's novel was first published, Mr. Kubrick reminded us that human folly is rarely checked for long. A half-century on, he is still right.

David Mermelstein, Wall Street Journal
Fresh

Kirk Douglas gives one of his finest performances as the intelligent and courageous Col. Dax.

Crosby Day, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh

The sardonic rhetoric may be laid on a little heavily at times, but the movie is blunt and scornfully brilliant.

David Denby, New Yorker
Rotten

While the subject is well handled and enacted in a series of outstanding characterizations, it seems dated and makes for grim screen fare.

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

This masterpiece still packs a wallop, though nothing in it is as simple as it may first appear; audiences are still arguing about the final sequence, which has been characterized as everything from a sentimental cop-out to the ultimate cynical twist.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

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