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“It starts out at a high level of drama—the glories and tragedies of war being inherently affecting”
JP32 · Metacritic ↗
“and simply keeps turning the screws tighter and tighter. We think we know the sad trajectory of these men, and yet at each turn, the film becomes more and more tragic”
JP32 · Metacritic ↗
“crushing you flat by the end with an onslaught of feeling”
JP32 · Metacritic ↗
“is boring”
peterf28 · Metacritic ↗
“the end is chaotic”
peterf28 · Metacritic ↗
“Ninomiya protgoniza one of the most emotional moments of the film, near the end”
forestville · Metacritic ↗
Read 28 Aug 2026 · confidence 19% · too thin for a score · how this works
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“It's unprecedented, a sorrowful and savagely beautiful elegy that can stand in the company of the greatest antiwar movies.”
David Ansen, Newsweek · 100
“Clint Eastwood's profound, magisterial, and gripping companion piece to his ambitious meditation on wartime image and reality, "Flags of Our Fathers."”
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly · 100
“Eastwood's direction here is a thing of beauty, blending the ferocity of the classic films of Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai) with the delicacy and unblinking gaze of Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story).”
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone · 100
“A few scenes serve as hinges joining this movie to "Flags of Our Fathers." While Letters From Iwo Jima seems to me the more accomplished of the two films -- by which I mean that it strikes me as close to perfect -- the two enrich each other, and together achieve an extraordinary completeness.”
A.O. Scott, The New York Times · 100
“Letters From Iwo Jima, takes audiences to a place that would seem unimaginable for an American director. Daring and significant, it presents a picture from life's other side, not only showing what wartime was like for our Japanese adversaries on that island in the Pacific but also actually telling the story in their language. Which turns out to be no small thing.”
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times · 100
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 28 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
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“It starts out at a high level of drama—the glories and tragedies of war being inherently affecting”
JP32about 0–15% inread it ↗
“and simply keeps turning the screws tighter and tighter. We think we know the sad trajectory of these men, and yet at each turn, the film becomes more and more tragic”
JP32about 0–100% inread it ↗
“crushing you flat by the end with an onslaught of feeling”
JP32about 75–100% inread it ↗
“is boring”
peterf28about 0–100% inread it ↗
“I was hoping it would entertain me as much as <em>'Flags of Our Fathers'</em> had - and I'm pleased to say it did! I'd say that aforementioned release pips this companion piece, but the difference in quality is virtually indistinguishable - both are very good films. Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya and Ryo Kase all give excellent performances, I enjoyed that trio throughout <em>'Letters from Iwo Jima'</em>. It's really cool to see the Japanese point of view of the Battle of Iwo Jima, having”
r96skread it ↗
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