Avis Metacritic

This is the director’s most vivid, most emotional and humane film, and perhaps his best.

Banned in France for 18 years, this masterpiece still packs a wallop, though nothing in it is as simple as it may first appear; audiences are still arguing about the final sequence, which has been characterized as everything from a sentimental cop-out to the ultimate cynical twist.

Paths of Glory was the film by which Stanley Kubrick entered the ranks of great directors, never to leave them.

It is arguably the best film about the first world war, and still has a reasonable claim to being Stanley Kubrick's best film.

One of the greatest war films ever made.

Paths of Glory undoubtedly succeeds in both foreshadowing the bravura auteurism that was to come as well as lampooning the abhorrent bureaucracy that destroyed the lives of so many brave young men in Europe's trenches.

The searing Paths Of Glory continues to impress with its striking blend of formal brilliance, economical storytelling and emotional directness.

The sardonic rhetoric may be laid on a little heavily at times, but the movie is blunt and scornfully brilliant.

Mr. Kubrick has made it look terrific. The execution scene is one of the most craftily directed and emotionally lacerating that we have ever seen. But there are two troubling flaws in this picture, one in the realm of technique and the other in the realm of significance, which determine its larger, lasting worth.

While the subject is well handled and enacted in a series of outstanding characterizations, it seems dated and makes for grim screen fare.