1. Clearly something has gone MIA in moving from the small pictures into a cohesive big one.
2. Engaging war drama that subtly mixes in several different genres to intriguing effect, though it occasionally relies too heavily on cliches.
3. The film is slow and rather too long (and a bit preachy), but always intense, and its intentions are certainly clear.
4. As long as soldiers have gone into battle they have struggled with the rightness of their actions and their purpose in the field -- no matter how firm their resolve at the outset.
5. The soldiers feel stuck and so do we.
6. Cedar overcomes the generic characters and formulaic "which innocent will die next in an ironic twist" plotting by his attention to detail.
7. It doesn't come like a full-length, filmed history lesson at all. In fact, it's a pretty fascinating, sometimes disturbing tale about the emotional and physical toll of combat.
8. Powerful portrait of an officer and his soldiers facing up to what it means to serve in an army of a fallible, democratic country that spins an explosive pyrrhic victory
9. In the end [it] isn't about victory or defeat... It's about surviving another day, doing one's job, and getting back to family.
10. [A] blistering antiwar film.
What is the consensus?
Beaufort is a deeply observant and meditative war film, masterfully rendered by director Joseph Cedar.