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20 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonThe movie holds up far better than its detractors guessed - splendidly, in fact - not only thanks to Scott's spellbinding acting, but to the epic imagery, Coppola's (and Edmund North's) highly intelligent script and Schaffner's lucid, perfectly controlled direction.
- 100ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliPatton remains to this day one of Hollywood's most compelling biographical war pictures.
- 100TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazinePatton is a war movie of unusual depth and a landmark in screen biographies.
- 100USA TodayMike ClarkUSA TodayMike ClarkStill mesmerizes on the strength of George C. Scott's chew-your-behind performance. [5 Nov. 1999, p.6E]
- 91The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinA giant Rorschach blot of a film, Patton can be read any number of ways, from a sly satire of gung-ho militarism to an epic glorification of Patton's old-school mentality.
- 90The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyA huge, initially ambivalent but finally adoring, Pop portrait of one of the most brilliant and outrageous American military figures of the last one hundred years.
- 88Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertNot a war film so much as the story of a personality who has found the right role to play. Scott's theatricality is electrifying.
- 80Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrPatton's personality--conveyed with pointed theatrical flair by George C. Scott--is registered in rich tones of grandeur and megalomania, genius and petty sadism.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyEntertainment WeeklyGeorge C. Scott's Oscar-winning portrait of the megalomaniacal warrior general is still the glue holding together this blunt study of war as the ultimate human (and dehumanizing) game.