Martin Sheen

This archive gathers the films featuring Martin Sheen reviewed at Master of Worlds: “Apocalypse Now (1979)”, “Catch-22 (1970)”, “Flatland: The Movie (2007)”, “Gettysburg (1993)”, “The Departed (2006)”, and “The Final Countdown (1980)” — 6 titles in all. Across these reviews the focus stays on how Martin Sheen serves each story: the choices that make a performance work, the roles that anchor a film, and the range visible across different pictures. Rather than rank the performances, the collection treats them as a body of work worth examining. The list continues to expand as additional films are reviewed.

Catch 22 1970 review

Catch-22 (1970)

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Mike Nichols’ 1970 Heller adaptation. Alan Arkin as Yossarian. Substantial source material that the film handles only partially.

Apocalypse now 1979 review

Apocalypse Now (1979)

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Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam Heart of Darkness. Sheen, Brando, Duvall, Hopper. The shoot that nearly killed everyone. The film that closed New Hollywood.

The departed review

The Departed (2006)

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Scorsese’s 2006 Boston crime thriller. Two moles, one in the mob, one in the police. DiCaprio, Damon, Nicholson. Finally got Scorsese his Oscar.

Flatland 2007 review

Flatland: The Movie (2007)

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Johnson and Travis’s 2007 animated adaptation of Edwin Abbott’s 1884 novella. Martin Sheen, Kristen Bell, Michael York. Source long thought unfilmable.

Gettysburg 1993 review

Gettysburg (1993)

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Gettysburg is four hours and fourteen minutes of Civil War battle filmmaking and it earns every minute. Ronald F. Maxwell directed it. Tom Berenger plays…

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