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- 100TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineAldrich was a master at presenting his distinctly cynical outlook in the context of crowd-pleasing entertainment, and The Dirty Dozen is one of his most effective and lasting efforts.
- 80Time OutTime OutAldrich appears to be against everything: anti-military, anti-Establishment, anti-women, anti-religion, anti-culture, anti-life. Overriding such nihilism is the super-crudity of Aldrich's energy and his humour, sufficiently cynical to suggest that the whole thing is a game anyway, a spectacle that demands an audience.
- 80IGNIGNLee Marvin and Charles Bronson in the same picture. How much more bad-assedness do you need?
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThere are some nice, amusing scenes, especially when one of the dozen (Donald Sutherland) pretends to be a general and inspects some troops. In fact, right up to the last scene the movie is amusing, well paced, intelligent.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe Dirty Dozen flows nicely, keeping things moving and drawing the audience along in its rapid current
- 75Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrRobert Aldrich dissects the underlying ideas with just enough craft and thoughtfulness to make the implications of this gritty 1966 war drama unsettling in not entirely constructive ways.
- It is overlong, uneven and frequently obscure, but will succeed by virtue of its sustained action, even though what it attempts to say, if anything, remains elusive.