This is a great American movie -- easily the most powerful film of the year.

I didn't take a single note during the screening of Platoon: It's that engrossing, that overwhelming.

It's a powerful, painful, must-see film -- an impassioned and riveting dispatch from the front that's at once a battle cry and a lamentation.

Oliver Stone's harrowing war picture was the first movie that felt like a genuine depiction of that terrible war, and brought collective catharsis for America's tragedy in Vietnam.