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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
- 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.