Reviews Unicorn Wars uses whimsical animation to spin a dark tale By: B.L. Panther Alberto Vazquez directs a grim story of war that spares nothing despite its cartoon depiction.
Reviews All Quiet on the Western Front is handsome and harrowing By: Nguyên Lê Germany's Oscar submission is still a grueling wonder even if it doesn't adapt the source material's stirring introspection.
Reviews The Greatest Beer Run Ever pops open sour suds By: Nguyên Lê Zac Efron and Russell Crowe star in a paltry brew of a Vietnam comedy that expects a pat on the back for effort.
Filmmaker of the Month In “Apocalypse Now,” Coppola’s souls turn away in the fog of war Francis Ford Coppola's ambitious war epic Apocalypse Now depicts a bloody, dark night of the soul for the American mythos.
Reviews “Outside the Wire” is a droning, ideologically confused sci-fi thriller By: Clint Worthington The Netflix Action Movie Industrial Complex continues abated with a deeply mediocre military thriller that can't get a handle on its lukewarm critique of drones.
Filmmaker of the Month “Zero Dark Thirty” refuses to take a stand By: Tim Stevens Nearly eight years later, Zero Dark Thirty continues to court controversy by stubbornly refusing to argue for or against the lengths America took to find Osama bin Laden.
Filmmaker of the Month “K-19: The Widowmaker” runs deep, but far from silent Kathryn Bigelow takes her innate sense of the mechanisms of masculinity into a sorely-overlooked Russian submarine drama.
Features “The Hurt Locker” told a starkly modern war story By: Michael Guarnieri Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar winning drama tossed aside the bombastic, jingoistic cliches of war pictures in favor of something more chilling.
Reviews “No Man’s Land” is a thoughtful, gripping modern war drama By: Oluwatayo Adewole The Hulu original series about the Syrian Civil War offers strong performances and unexpected dark humor.
Filmmaker of the Month “Tigerland” looks at the pre-war pain of young (and talented) men Joel Schumacher's sensitive wartime drama gives the world Colin Farrell and explores the painful tribulations of young men waiting for war.
Reviews “The Painted Bird” loses itself in its own detached misery By: Michael Snydel Václav Marhoul's three-hour WW2 fable is a brutal film tied up a bit too rigidly in its meticulous depictions of violence.
Reviews Go “Greyhound” and leave the sailing to Hanks By: Clint Worthington Tom Hanks admirably buoys a lean, but sloppy WWII naval thriller too sincere to sell its simplicity.
Reviews War is hell, and unfortunately, so is “The Outpost” By: Michael Snydel Rod Lurie's military thriller about the Battle of Kamdesh can't quite nail its critique about the horrors of war.
Anniversaries “The Patriot” at 20: Yankee Doodle Dreary 20 years later, Roland Emmerich's Revolutionary War drama skewers U.S. history and Mel Gibson's persona without trying to—or realizing it.
Reviews Spike Lee heads to Vietnam in the bracing, powerful “Da 5 Bloods” By: Oluwatayo Adewole Spike Lee explores the painful history of Blackness in American warfare with this lengthy, but gripping, Vietnam epic.
“Sergio” Wants to Tell You About Its Hero, But What About Him? Coming off his documentary work, Greg Barker presents his first scripted feature in a mishmash of undercooked storylines and characters.
Festivals Sundance 2020: “Luxor” Gets Lost In Translation A solid first half and great work from Andrea Riseborough aren't quite enough to make up for Zeina Durra's Egyptian indie.
“1917” Takes a Long, Thin Look at War Sam Mendes' WWI epic is an astounding technical achievement, but loses its soul on the way to razzle-dazzle.
A Hidden Life Review: Forging Our Own Idea of God Terrence Malick's three-hour opus examines the links between the theological, the empirical, and the absurdist in his best film in almost a decade.
Box Office Report Box Office Report: “Doctor Sleep” Loses the War to “Midway” The Stephen King sequel checks out with a disappointing opener, but Roland Emmerich's WWII epic flies high.
Interviews Ed Skrein and Luke Kleintank on Honoring WWII Heroes in “Midway” The stars of Roland Emmerich's epic war film sit down to talk about research, gum, and the Greatest Generation.