Critic Reviews
No Man's Land (2001) Rank 4 Reviews
Expert Review Summary
based on (160) reviews
Click on the numbers to the right of the graph to see reviews of that rating
Fair
1
(0)
Poor
0
(0)
Reviews by Score:
Cinema Signals by The Filmiliar Cineaste
Daily-Reviews.com (Robert Keser)
The first-rate letterboxed image of MGM Home Entertainment's DVD looks crisp and true (in 2:35:1 anamorphic), but it's no surprise that the pan-and-scan version shows noticeable graininess. The audio sounds equally first-rate and preserves the spatial ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Daily-Reviews.com (Robert Keser)
Reel Movie Critic (George O. Singleton)
Nino, a rookie soldier and an experienced comrade whose name he does not even know, have low crawled to the trench to ensure that no one has survived. Cera was brought into the trench by Nino and his comrade and then placed on a land mine set to explode ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Reel Movie Critic (George O. Singleton)
ViewLondon (Brian Walker)
Who would have thought it? Instead of choosing the sweet-centered but charming Amelie, the members of the Motion Picture Academy of America opted to give the Oscar for best foreign film to this blistering black comedy from Bosnian director Danis Tanovic. ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at ViewLondon (Brian Walker)
TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide
The winner of the 2001 Foreign Language Oscar is a bare-knuckled, absurdly comic and at times unbearably tense look back at the madness of the Bosnian conflict. Bosnia, 1993. After a night spent lost in the fog-enshrouded countryside, a Bosnian relief ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide
The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
SPLICEDwire (Rob Blackwelder)
Susan Granger
One of the best foreign language films of 2001, "No Man's Land" tells the bizarre tale of two wounded soldiers, a Bosnian and a Serb, trapped in a trench between enemy lines during the 1993 Bosnian war. Neither the Bosnian Ciki (Branko Djuric) nor the ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Susan Granger
Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
NO MAN'S LAND, Danis Tanovic's black comedy about the absurd futility of war, is a prime example of why I adore films from the former Yugoslavia and have since before it was a former. They are like knife to the gut, they are beautiful, and they are ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
New York Post (Lou Lumenick)
Reel.com
No Man's Land takes place on a hot summer day and cinematographer Walther Vanden Ende captures the golden, shimmering hues of an afternoon better-suited to a picnic than to sudden, senseless death. Tanovic doesn't let his evident nationalism get in the ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Reel.com
Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
Sacramento Bee (--)
No Man's Land hurts when you laugh. ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Sacramento Bee (--)
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)
A brilliant and brilliantly disturbing film. ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)
Entertainment Weekly
In No Man's Land, Danis Tanovic's blunt, satiric yowl against everything ludicrous and harrowing about war, all battle comes down to the blackly absurd situation of mortal enemies trapped together in a trench. Stranded between lines with no will ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Entertainment Weekly
MovieMaze (Martin Buchholz)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
With the United States currently involved in attacking Afghanistan and with pro-military patriotic fervor at a post-World War II high, it is unclear how well a movie like this, with a clear anti-war message, will fare. There is no doubt, however, ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Rolling Stone
Is the Bosnian war an appropriate topic for satire? Yes, when it's this scathing. In a trench between enemy lines, two soldiers - the Bosnian _Ciki (Branko Djuri_c) and the Serb Nino (Rene Bitorajac) - face off in a microcosm of the Bosnian war. Haven't ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Rolling Stone
mazzyboi's movie page (Angelo Aquino)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Set in the same place and about the same war, "No Man's Land" is like the grown-up version of "Behind Enemy Lines." It's a bleakly funny parable that could be titled "Between Enemy Lines." ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Xiibaro Productions (David Perry)
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Danis Tanovic's film festival favorite (including at Cannes, where it took the best screenplay prize) sounds like the recipe for a pretension, hamfisted message movie. In 1993 at the height of the Bosnian conflict, a Bosnian soldier named Ciki (Branko ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
A witty black comedy anti-war film directed and written by Bosnian Danis Tanovic and filmed in Slovenia. It won this year's Oscar for best foreign film by wholly capturing the absurdity of war theme. A Bosnian relief patrol gets lost at night and in ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
The other interlinking storyline features a group of French soldiers led by Marchand (Georges Siatidis) who are part of the UN peacekeeping misison. Their orders keep them from doing anything to stop the carnage they see around them without word from ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
Palo Alto Online (Joe Mader)
Branko Djuric, Filip Sovagovic and Rene Bitorajac in No Man's Land.Bosnian documentarian Danis Tanovic's first feature film focuses on the Bosnian war, but Tanovic's real subject is getting stuck, literally and figuratively, on every level -- ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Palo Alto Online (Joe Mader)
Nick's Flick Picks (Nick Davis)
Meanwhile, Walther Vanden Ende doesn't do much with his camera, allowing most of the scenes to endure in statically composed frames that feel like proscenium arches. Except for an opening scene within blue-gray fog that recalls Giancarlo ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Nick's Flick Picks (Nick Davis)
One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
The film is sharply written and directed by Danis Tanovic. Unlike most American dark comedies there is no soft edge to be found anywhere in this devastating indictment of war. It is razor-sharp throughout. The film has effective battle scenes and makes ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
In Bosnian, French, and English with subtitles There are essentially two kinds of war films: those that present battle as an heroic spectacle and those that show the grim, grotesque, dehumanizing side of it. Back in the '40s, '50s, and '60s, when America ...read the complete No Man's Land movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
from $6.09 (13 sellers)
del.icio.us
Digg
StumbleUpon
Yahoo! My Web
Facebook
Google Bookmarks
ma.gnolia
Newsvine
reddit
Windows Live
