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Platoon (1986)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Production Photos Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites Recommendations Sign in to receive personalized recommendations. Sign In Or  Sign Up   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   A- Source Brief Review Grade* Apollo Guide Erik Childress "...one of the best war films ever made..." more... A- BBC Almar Haflidason "Beautifully shot..." more... A   Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "[Oliver Stone] abandoned the choreography that is standard in almost all war movies." more... A   filmcritic.com Christopher Null "Like no other movie could tell, Platoon shows us categorically that war...is hell." more... A- Q Network James Kendrick "... a radical piece of realistic filmmaking weighted down by awkwardly conventional narrative devices." more... A- Reel.com Rod Armstrong "...the actors have an easy camaraderie with one another..." more... B   Washington Post Paul Attanasio "...a triumph..." more... B+ * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)