Don Shanahan Every Movie Has a Lesson Sep 4, 2023 3/5

The most fitting and laudable word to compliment the "Journey’s End" ensemble is maturity. Each of the principal players exudes some growth of that trait both on and off camera.

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Sarah Brinks Battleship Pretension Mar 24, 2021

You don't have to be a student of history to know that the trenches during World War I were horrific places to fight. Journey's End does not attempt to glorify that field of battle, but it also never quite fully commits to the true horror either...

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Zehra Phelan Flavourmag Aug 19, 2020 5/5

Stripes back to just the essentials and delves deep into the souls of those forced onto the front lines of doom.

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Leigh Paatsch Herald Sun (Australia) May 8, 2020 2.5/5

Sherriff's long, wordy exchanges remain as beautifully written and quietly powerful as ever. However, director Saul Bibb has his work cut out sustaining a strong cinematic momentum.

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Pamela Hutchinson Silent London Apr 21, 2020

Dibb's sensitive incorporation of, or tribute to, traces of archive imagery is intriguing and very satisfying.

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Ben Sachs Chicago Reader Apr 20, 2020

Director Saul Dibb doesn't quite succeed in making the drama feel fresh, but this is a sensitive and handsomely performed adaptation.

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Sarah Knight Adamson Sarah's Backstage Pass Jan 30, 2020 3.5/4

Bleak stuff...however, it's powerfully moving.

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Andiee Paviour Nobody's Reading This But Me Jul 7, 2019 3.5/5

The rat-infested trenches of Northern France are no place for a boy in the spring of 1918. But that's where Second Lieutenant Raleigh naively requests to be sent.

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Julie Crawford North Shore News (Vancouver, B.C.) Apr 16, 2019 8/10

If you're claustrophobic, best to leave Journey's End off your viewing list, but all others will find treasure in these trenches.

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Rachel Wagner rachelsreviews.net Feb 28, 2019 C-

I couldn't believe how much time was spent debating eating military rations.

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Jack Blackwell One Room With A View Feb 22, 2019 3/5

A worthy war movie that's too held back by its stage origins.

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Sarah Ward ArtsHub Jan 28, 2019 3.5/5

A sober, grim and powerful war story.

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Fiona Underhill JumpCut Online Jan 24, 2019 5/5

Exceeds expectations and Bettany is sublime.

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Jim Schembri 3AW Nov 25, 2018 3.5/5

The period recreation is vivid, especially when the whistle blows and the men climb over the top and into a battlefield strewn with barbed wire, bomb craters and mud-soaked corpses. It's a gruelling drama, yet a worthwhile one.

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Louise Keller Urban Cinefile Nov 11, 2018

The horrors of war are on display in this tense and affecting film in which we are taken in the trenches and into the lives of the men who wait for the inevitable. Director Saul Dibb has made a sensitive film...

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Paul Byrnes Sydney Morning Herald Nov 8, 2018 4/5

If it's not pacifist, it's certainly a profoundly anti-war statement about men under ultimate stress. One hundred years on, it's never too soon, never too late for that idea.

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David 'Mad Dog' Bradley Adelaide Review Nov 8, 2018

It remains pretty damn powerful even if some of its thunder has been slightly stolen by the mighty army of war movies that have come before.

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James Croot The Post NZ Nov 6, 2018 4.5/5

A terrific companion piece (and Armistice Day weekend double bill) to Peter Jackson's similarly set documentary They Shall Not Grow Old.

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David Stratton The Australian Nov 2, 2018 3.5/5

Journey's End is a powerful and moving tribute to the men who fought in the trenches.

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Robert W. Monk FILMINK (Australia) Sep 30, 2018 17/20

The sheer horror of the first World War is captured in sobering detail in this quietly moving adaptation of a powerfully emotive play of the same name.

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