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Saving Private Ryan (1998)

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All Time

of 190,142

58

1990's

of 24,698

4

1998

of 6,348

1
Action
- Action All Time
  
  of 5,895
  
  12
  
  Action of 1998
  
  of 166
  
  1
  
  Action of the 1990's
  
  of 1,477
  
  1
Drama
- Drama All Time
  
  of 37,999
  
  37
  
  Drama of 1998
  
  of 606
  
  1
  
  Drama of the 1990's
  
  of 4,160
  
  3
History
- History All Time
  
  of 780
  
  3
  
  History of 1998
  
  of 10
  
  1
  
  History of the 1990's
  
  of 95
  
  1
War
- War All Time
  
  of 2,149
  
  6
  
  War of 1998
  
  of 14
  
  1
  
  War of the 1990's
  
  of 119
  
  1

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Saving Private Ryan (1998) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars

Overall Rating:3.6325

Avg Critic Score:3.6028

Saving Private Ryan (1998) Movie Reviews

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ReelViews (James Berardinelli)

Saving Private Ryan opens with a 30-minute cinematic tour de force that is without a doubt one of the finest half-hours ever committed to film. ...read the complete Saving Private Ryan movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)

ReelViews (James Berardinelli)

With Saving Private Ryan set alongside Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg, once known as a purveyor of well-crafted-but-lightweight feel-good fare, has given us two of the decade's most gripping, disturbing, and powerful motion ...read the complete Saving Private Ryan movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)

Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

The soldiers assigned to find Pvt. Ryan and bring him home can do the math for themselves. ...read the complete Saving Private Ryan movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

This film embodies ideas. After the immediate experience begins to fade, the implications remain and grow. ...read the complete Saving Private Ryan movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice

Maybe Spielberg should only make World War II movies. There may be hope for DreamWorks yet. The only war film I've seen as near as violent than this one is the Russian WWII film, Come and See (1985). ...read the complete Saving Private Ryan movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice

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San Francisco Examiner (G. Allen Johnson)

The effect is riveting and frightening. You feel you are under siege with the combatants....read the complete Saving Private Ryan (1998) review at San Francisco Examiner (G. Allen Johnson)

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Harvey's Movie Review (Harvey O'Brien)

Saving Private Ryan is a good film. It deals with its subject well and eventually offers a strong moral argument for audiences to contemplate. It successfully raises questions about the nature and purpose of war and serves to remind us of what it...read the complete Saving Private Ryan (1998) review at Harvey's Movie Review (Harvey O'Brien)

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Movie ram-blings (Ram Samudrala)

I'm a pacificist, and the topic of war in general is something that pushes my buttons quite easily and profoundly. So when I go into a movie about war, knowing it's a Hollywood production, I'm pretty cynical about it. My bias admittedly requires the...read the complete Saving Private Ryan (1998) review at Movie ram-blings (Ram Samudrala)

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James Bowman

It's time that the team of computer programmers from IBM who developed “Deep Blue,” the machine that beat the world chess champion, Gary Kasparov, to take on a real challenge. Let them try to develop a movie-making program that is more formidable...read the complete Saving Private Ryan (1998) review at James Bowman

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Casey's Review

It is insulting for this movie to have junkets. It is insulting that this film needs to be advertised. It should be understood that this is what needs to be seen. It shouldn't be commercialized. It should just be. Spielberg told the Los Angeles Times...read the complete Saving Private Ryan (1998) review at Casey's Review

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