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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenThe Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenA fascinating documentary with a high entertainment quotient thanks to the fact that the film's surviving subjects prove to be some of the most articulate, not to mention wittiest, octogenarians around.
- 80Film ThreatJames WeggFilm ThreatJames WeggAny thinking person – no matter what political stripe or moral belief – needs to see this important film then try to apply its valuable lessons to today's, still, unstable planet.
- 80VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerChristian Bauer's engaging The Ritchie Boys captures the excitement, ironies and "good war" feel of World War II.
- 80Village VoiceVillage VoiceThese are men who know of what they speak; they're also eloquent, erudite, and funny as hell.
- 80The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThose whose tolerance of Greatest Generation war stories isn't exhausted, not to mention those who still thrive on them, will find the group of men who called themselves the Ritchie Boys good company.
- 75New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanStill witty and eloquent, these cerebral boys became the haunted men who do their best to share their experiences with us, even as they know we'll never truly understand.
- 70Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago ReaderJ.R. JonesThe visual monotony of talking heads and stock footage is interrupted occasionally by the spectral charcoal drawings of veteran Si Lewen, though his art is used to full advantage only when he describes the liberation of Buchenwald.
- 70Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranThis is a film with a story we have not seen before, a story about American troops so unusual it needed a German director to ferret it out.