The critic consesnsus is: A technical masterpiece, Battleship Potemkin is Soviet cinema at its finest, and its montage editing techniques remain influential to this day.. What reviews supported this critic consensus?
1. A work of straightforward emotion and pulse-quickening tension.
2. For a piece of propaganda, this has a lot more artfulness than you'll recall, replete with quiet moments of public mourning and a stirring flag-hoisting (dyed red on the new print, too).
3. Sergei Eisenstein's masterpiece is a persistently political work salvaged by its unforgettable grasp of motion.
4. Battleship Potemkin is agitprop, but cinematically magnificent agitprop...
5. The direction of Sergei Eisenstein is original and powerful.
6. Eisenstein proved himself to be the first of what would become a familiar filmmaking type: the entertainer/sadist.
7. Packs so much eye-and-heart power that its abrupt ending seems to come hard on the opening rather than an hour-and-a-third later.
8. Capturing a unique moment in time, Eisentsein's 1925 masterpiece is a must-see for viewers interested in film theory, history, and aesthetics, and not just because of its seminal Odessa Steps sequence, later imitated by many directors.
9. Startlingly beautiful.
10. comes from a time where films communicated primarily through images, even if its themes fade into historical irrelevance.