
Christmas, 1983. A New York postal clerk, a Buffalo Soldier in Italy in World War II, shoots a stranger. In his apartment, police find a valuable Italian marble head, missing since the war. Flashbacks tell the story of four Black soldiers who cross Tuscany's Serchio River, dodging German and friendly fire. With a shell-shocked boy in tow, they reach the village of Colognora. Orders via radio tell them to capture a German soldier for questioning about a counteroffensive. In th... (Full plot summary below)
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Christmas, 1983. A New York postal clerk, a Buffalo Soldier in Italy in World War II, shoots a stranger. In his apartment, police find a valuable Italian marble head, missing since the war. Flashbacks tell the story of four Black soldiers who cross Tuscany's Serchio River, dodging German and friendly fire. With a shell-shocked boy in tow, they reach the village of Colognora. Orders via radio tell them to capture a German soldier for questioning about a counteroffensive. In the village, a beautiful woman, partisans that include a traitor and a local legend, the boy, and the story of a recent massacre connect to the postal worker's anguish forty years later. And the miracle?
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| Los Angeles CityBeatAndy KleinIt might have been easily trimmed by a half hour, which is a shame, because there are so many good moments buried in there -- a proverbial two-hour movie struggling to get out. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh Larsen...one of the most wrenching war films I've seen. |
| The Cinema SourceMichael DanceLittle imperfections prevent it from being the classic epic it wants to be, but Lee accomplishes quite a lot here. |
| East Bay ExpressKelly VanceAt 160 minutes, it definitely suffers from Oscar Bloat. |
| Movie RetrieverBrian TallericoLee jumps back and forth between melodramatic speeches and unnecessary monologues so much that he loses all the emotional connection that he could possibly find with his audience. |
| NewsBlazeKam WilliamsAn overdue history lesson about the indelible stain left by Jim Crow on the conflicted minds of black men forced to wage a white man's war when they'd really prefer to be fighting for their own civil rights. |
| Denver PostLisa KennedyLee brings a maturing sensibility and a talent for ensemble performance to a tale that is loving, angry and profoundly American. |
| Screen InternationalMike GoodridgeThe tone here is inconsistent to say the least, and screenwriter James McBride, who also wrote the film's source novel, doesn't take any one character's point of view throughout, leaving the narrative decidedly unfocused. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderExciting, exhausting, and emotionally engaging. This might be the most accessible and skillful work of Lee's career. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyLee's muddle of inappropriate camera angles, overemphasized exposition, and overall inability to get beyond the scope of the source material makes the cinematic garment seem like it was made with a shortage of fabric. |