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Gods and Generals (2003)   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:   C- Source Brief Review Grade* Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "The actors do what they can, although you can sense them winding up to deliver pithy quotations." more... C- Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington "The battle scenes in Gods and Generals are its high point." more... C+ Cincinnati Enquirer Margaret A. McGurk "...only a few scenes come across as genuine." more... C+ E! Online "...loses the war to hold our interest." more... C   filmcritic.com Sean O'Connell "More than anything, Generals needs an editor." more... D+ Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas "...this film is in danger of talking itself to death before the Union and the Confederacy are able to decimate each other." more... C- New York Post Jonathan Foreman "...a shapeless, undramatic mess, dreadfully written, directed and edited, with its generally able cast hamstrung by unspeakable dialogue." more... D   New York Times Stephen Holden "Events are confusingly piled onto one other, often with too many distracting details." more... D   ReelViews James Berardinelli "Sadly, the movie falls far short of expectations." more... C   Rolling Stone Peter Travers "The mighty wind of speechifying can knock you unconscious in this 217-minute Civil War epic..." more... D   San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle "...a plodding, episodic film, reverent and sanctimonious..." more... D+ Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "...the filmmakers' decision to tell the story this time mostly from the South's point of view strips it of a moral perspective that's easy to swallow." more... C+ USA Today Mike Clark "It's hard to imagine anyone but the most fervid Blue and Gray enthusiast taking another look..." more... D+ * 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...)