Warfare's focus on the experience of war over any specific thematic throughline allows the film to avoid some potentially ...

This review contains spoilers. War movies are a staple in American cinema. From “Saving Private Ryan” to the “Top Gun” ...

Warfare has no background, exposition, character development, or overarching themes. Audiences are simply dropped into the middle of Iraq with a team of Navy SEALs as they fight Al-Qaeda.

The central value proposition of “Warfare,” the new Iraq War film co-written and co-directed by ex-Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland, is realism. On a technical level, it hits the mark.

“Warfare” wants to live in the dictionary shoehorned between war cry and war hawk. This short and gripping thriller nails its Oxford English definition — “the activity of fighting a war ...