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Dark Blue World Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 3.0
    56

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Mixed or average reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 40

    out of 100

    The New York Times A.O. Scott

    This could be called an art house version of "Pearl Harbor," except that sounds vaguely nutritious, like fat- free yogurt or a historical episode of A&E's "Biography." But Dark Blue World is all empty carbs, like malted milk balls.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    The aerial-dogfight scenes, which are beautiful and shot through with jittery panic, are notable for not being staged for videogame kicks.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    "Kolya" was as emotionally authentic and original as Dark Blue World is derivative and not compelling.

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  • 60

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

    As it stands, Dark Blue World -- for all the considerable skills of the Sveraks and their colleagues on both sides of the camera -- occupies that treacherous territory between art film and popular epic.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

    The film mixes unashamed kitsch, thrilling airfight scenes and dark historical drama. But what gives it a special charge is its portrait of the Czech RAF group: what happened to them before, during and after the war.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Variety Derek Elley

    Sverak's sheer technical finesse, and ability to spin on a dime between comedy and tragedy, the personal and the historical, makes Dark Blue World succeed where other similarly themed movies, from "Battle of Britain" to "The Blue Max," seem heavy-handed by comparison.

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