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Army of Shadows
1969
· Movie
· 145 min
A
MEANRANK
85/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #102
- IMDb #282
- Rotten Tomatoes #108
- Metacritic #150
- Letterboxd #86
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #202
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #285
- Metacritic Critics #14
- Metacritic Audience #1423
- Criticker #39
- Kinopoisk #1018
- AlloCiné #142
- Trakt #552
Every rating
74–99
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic users on 74, highest is Metacritic critics on 99. Critics average 98, everyone else 83.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A portrait of the French Resistance during World War II, focusing on a small cell of fighters. The film depicts their clandestine operations not as glamorous heroics, but as a grim, paranoid, and morally complex struggle for survival, filled with betrayal, difficult choices, and constant fear of capture and death.
Details
- Director
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Writer
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Studio
- Fono Roma, Les Films Corona
- Released
- 10 September 1969
- Country
- France, Italy
- Language
- French, German, English
- Runtime
- 145 min
- Rated
- NR
- Box office
- $906.1K
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Cast
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Awards
4 wins & 1 nomination total
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