Critic Reviews

• Mike Hale, New York Times

  A movie you've seen before, when it was set on the Apache reservation or in the Vietnamese jungle.

• V.A. Musetto, New York Post

  Along the way, Siri exposes French hypocrisy -- showing that the Algerian rebels were only doing what the French Resistance did in battling the Nazis who ruled their country in WorldWar II.

• Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice

  With its sententious air of historical reckoning, Enemies is an impressive monument, but not a moving one.

• Wally Hammond, Time Out

  Director Florent Emilio Siri ('The Nest', 'Hostage') shows ability in action sequences and group dynamics but his film never develops sufficiently to raise it much above the conventional.

• Dennis Harvey, Variety

  Visceral and engrossing.

• Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

  Says so much that's familiar if not downright clichéd, it winds up saying nothing at all.

• Cath Clarke, Guardian [UK]

  It's all rather conventional, drawing on the blockbuster big bangs and special effects he must have picked up in Hollywood making the Bruce Willis thriller Hostage.

• David Parkinson, Empire Magazine

  A harrowing but formulaic insight into the realities experiened by French conscripts during the Algerian War.

• Neil Bastian, BBC

  Terrien's journey is more conventional, but still powerful and well acted.

• Anton Bitel, Film4

  a no-holds-barred history with alarming lessons for the current 'War on Terror'.

• Denis Seguin, Screen International

  Pulls no punches in its depiction of the gruesome nature of guerilla warfare and the ensuing decay of morality.

• Barbara Goslawski, Boxoffice Magazine

  Truly unforgettable and revelatory, L'Ennemi intime presents a rare glimpse into the realities of war in all its gory detail, tempered with a heartbreaking insight into our inescapably frail human consciousness.

• David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

  Rotman's reliance on speechifying to get his points across essentially drains anything even resembling authenticity from the film...

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