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Jarhead (2005)   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   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   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:   B Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Bob Longino "Big, bold and ambitious, with good performances. But it's a war movie that's never as great as it wants to be." more... B   Boston Globe Ty Burr "When Mendes...does try something new, it backfires prodigiously." more... B- Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "The movie is uncanny in its effect. It contains no heroism, little action, no easy laughs." more... A- Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt "...a good, not great movie." more... B- E! Online "...in the end, viewers will be discharged with a clear view of war: Even boring ones really do suck." more... B+ Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman "...presents American soldiers confronting globalized warfare as a highly controlled yet unstable experience, a mosh pit of testosterone in search of an outlet." more... B+ filmcritic.com Eric Meyerson "...worthy and faithful..." more... B+ Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt "A tough yet tentative account of the first Gulf War." more... C+ New York Post Kyle Smith "I'm not saying Jarhead exaggerates. I'm saying it lies from beginning to end." more... C- New York Times A.O. Scott "...a minor movie about a minor war, and a film that feels, at the moment, remarkably irrelevant." more... C+ ReelViews James Berardinelli "Jarhead is compelling in the way it presents a new facet of a genre that some would argue was mined out long ago." more... A- Rolling Stone Peter Travers "The jolt of Jarhead is undeniable, and it comes when you least expect it." more... B   San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle "...a harsh and thoroughly unromantic examination of the scarring effects of war and of the personalities, many of them dysfunctional, that are drawn to it." more... B+ Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "...it's a powerful experience that measures the human cost of its war..." more... A- USA Today Mike Clark "The result is a look back that is rewarding as far as it goes, a movie that never overplays its hand by drawing parallels to the current war." 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...)