RM: Let’s start back with my perception of war movies while serving, or even how I viewed them prior to service. I viewed them as entertaining, and very glorifying. Like, oh wow, that’s what ...

War-movie cliches have been rigorously rooted out of “Warfare,” a terse and chillingly brutal immersion in a moment of the Iraq War. Clouds of IED smoke and cries of agony fill Garland and ...

“American Sniper,” Clint Eastwood’s film about U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and his 160 confirmed “kills” across his four tours of duty in Iraq, stands as the most profitable war movie ever mad ...

One could debate just how fanciful its near-future depiction of America going to war with itself over a president who refused to leave office was, but for all that movie’s intense effort to ...

THE DEBATE OVER whether war films, by depicting the act of warfare, are automatically guilty of glorifying it—in other words, over whether it’s even possible for a film to be “anti-war ...

Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland ’s “Warfare” is more defined by what it isn't than what it is. In their Iraq War-set film, there’s never any description of a wider strategy. There are no ...

Meanwhile, this is Mendoza’s first outing as a director, but he’s mostly worked as an advisor on other war movies in the past ... and notes the SEALs’ general indifference to the civilians ...

But with its swoop through history, and its flawless ability to be at once a war movie and a homage to war movies, a comedy and a drama, Basterds is his most ambitious, most perfectly realised work." ...

"Warfare" isn't just the most authentic, well-shot, superbly acted and properly paced war film of the post-9/11 era of military movies. In all likelihood, it will end up ranking as one of the best ...

In their Iraq War-set film, there’s never any description of a wider strategy. There are no backstories to the American Navy SEALs whom we follow on an unspectacular mission. There’s not a ...