Variety
"...Courageous and uncompromising..." 12/02/1981New York Times
"...Keaton is nothing less than splendid....REDS is an extremely fine film." 12/04/1981 p.C8 Entertainment Weekly
"A rabble-rousing tour de force....The movie is political, educational, provocative...It is also intellectually stirring..." -- Grade: A 10/20/2006 p.63 New York Times
"REDS remains a superior history lesson, thanks to Mr. Beatty's thorough command of the material and to his inclusion of real-life 'witnesses' to the life and times of Reed." 10/04/2006 p.E1 Rolling Stone
"Beatty's passion is indisputable." 11/30/2006 p.96 Entertainment Weekly
Included in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 10 DVDs Of The Year" -- "[T]he movie has only increased in power and relevance." 12/29/2006 p.112 Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- "Beatty and Keaton give career-best performances and Jack Nicholson, as ever, steals all his scenes..." 05/01/2007 p.122 Sight and Sound
"There is plenty to admire here....It takes a certain gumption to make a three-hour Hollywood epic centered on the Russian revolution." 04/01/2007 p.86-7 | 
