Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
A fable so simple, so pure, it feels as if it has existed for hundreds of years, like a brilliant shard of sea glass rendered smooth and elegant through generations of retelling.

Name : Jordan Mintzer / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Like The Red Turtle's shipwrecked protagonist, you have to simply stop fighting the current and go with the flow.

Name : Eric Kohn / Alias : indieWIRE
This is a quiet little masterpiece of images, each one rich with meaning, that collectively speak to a universal process.

Name : David Rooney / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Gibson's forceful comeback is a violent drama about pacifism that succeeds in combining horror with grace.

Name : Dave Calhoun / Alias : Time Out
There aren't many shades of grey in 'Hacksaw Ridge', but it follows through its purpose with vigour, confidence and swagger

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
In celebrating this legendary pacifist, Gibson and company ennoble the hell out of violence.

Name : Owen Gleiberman / Alias : Variety
It immerses you in the violent madness of war - and, at the same time, it roots its drama in the impeccable valor of a man who, by his own grace, refuses to have anything to do with war.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : TIME Magazine
A movie that reaches out toward the idea of goodness in the world. And whether you or I like Gibson as a person or not, it's no one's place to deny his reach.

Name : Glenn Kenny / Alias : New York Times
The imagery, in scenes that always unfold slowly, is truly startling, particularly given that the film is almost 90 years old.

Name : Mordaunt Hall / Alias : New York Times
It is a joyful and at the same time a thoroughly artistic contribution to motion pictures.

Name : Tom Keogh / Alias : Seattle Times
A fascinating portrait of South Seas life, albeit embellished.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
Flaherty's company are performing their lives and their ancestors' lives and Flaherty's idea of both, for him, for his camera, for the world of '26, for us today, for all time.

Name : Dave Kehr / Alias : Chicago Reader
Flaherty's sticky romanticism can't obscure the power of his images, which speak with an eloquence the intertitles lack.