Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New – 5/25/15] | Sean Axmaker @ Parallax View
- Excerpt: The sports story is also our entry into a culture, and this hockey film provides no less than a sideways look into the way that communist USSR controlled its athletes
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: A crowd-pleasing documentary about the adventures of the Soviet national ice-hockey team.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Polsky’s dynamic look at the recent history of Russian hockey and many of its greatest players is not only one of the great sports documentaries but a unique take on the Cold War.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: There are enough pieces of this story missing or detached from context that hockey here does start to become the kind of metaphor that the movie seems to want to avoid.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Excerpt: ‘Red Army’ – Tales Of The Cold War Played Out In A Hockey Rink
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: The documentary concerns a nearly unbeatable unit known as the “Russian Five” on the national team. But even more specifically it profiles one member, hockey captain Slava Fetisov.
- Donald Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Matthew Lucas @ From the Front Row
- Excerpt: Its tonal shifts undercut its narrative momentum, leaving it feeling scattershot and kind of sloppy. This just doesn’t feel like a professionally shot documentary.
- Marty Mapes @ Movie Habit
- Excerpt: For the Soviet team, hockey is an apt metaphor for the Cold War
- Diego Salgado @ Guía del Ocio [Spanish]
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