Rated #24 on IMDb's Top 250 Movies, Saving Private Ryan is a visceral WWII epic that begins with the D-Day invasion of Normandy Beach. When the fog of war clears, Captain Miller (Hanks) is ordered ...

Cinematically, it's a pause in the action that feels almost sacred. Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz Kamiński stage the scene without dramatic camera movement. There is no swelling score - just ...

Saving Private Ryan, though, is a strangely uneven movie. Once we’ve seen the final images of all the corpses and dead fish with red-tinged waves lapping over them, the film changes dramatically.

In the middle of “Saving Private Ryan,” as tension among the squad reaches a boiling point, Captain John H. Miller (Tom Hanks) does something unexpected. He reveals who he was before the war ...