Stalingrad | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

The film establishes itself as a work of national pride wrapped in the form of a heritage spectacle.

Fedor Bondarchuk's bloody battle epic celebrates the excesses of war cinema far more effectively than it does the heroism of his countrymen.

It's exciting to see post-communism Russian cinema patriotically revisiting its own history like this. I didn't mind the clichés, because part of Stalingrad's 131-minute charm is that in some ways it feels 40 years old.

Stalingrad is far from a perfect war film, but it does add up to an overall gratifying visual experience.

while the narrative encourages a sense of philosophical reflection about the horrors of war, the film's video-game-inspired look constantly puts us at a distance by overly aestheticizing the violence with extreme slow motion and bullet time effects