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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenBlessed by Fire, a bitter remembrance of the Falklands War in 1982, captures battlefield chaos and confusion with a visceral force you won't forget.
- 70SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirThe morbid and gripping war film Blessed by Fire, from the Argentine filmmaker Tristán Bauer, is well worth a look.
- 63New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoThe battlefield sequences unfold with surreal horror, while the human bonding in the foxholes emerges tenderly. On the downside, Bauer - who makes no pretense about where his heart lies - tacks on a melodramatic coda that lessens the momentum of an otherwise praiseworthy film.
- 60VarietyJonathan HollandVarietyJonathan HollandA watchable if none-too-penetrating analysis of the traumatizing effects of a war largely forgotten.
- 50Village VoiceVillage VoiceTristán Bauer's new war movie has an even more bitterly ironic title in Spanish: "Iluminados por El Fuego" or "Enlightened by Fire."