Warfare is a profoundly emotional and sobering film that prompts viewers to contemplate the nature of conflict and the question, "What are we fighting for?"

Full Review | Jul 30, 2025

The first half is by far the strongest stretch.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 28, 2025

A blistering, near-real-time reconstruction of a traumatic 2006 firefight, framed not through the lens of politics or traditional drama, but through the memories of Mendoza and those who served with him.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 27, 2025

Warfare is an experience: a blood-curdling, bone-shakingly intense one at that, throwing you right into the depths of hell with these men. Their guttural screams will linger long after the credits roll.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 23, 2025

Alex Garland (Civil War) and former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza wrote and directed this no-frills snapshot of war, based on a harrowing real-life event experienced by Mendoza’s platoon in 2006 Iraq.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 22, 2025

Though Warfare is only about 90 minutes, the agonized wailing, constant gunfire, and missing limbs make for an unpleasantly tense viewing experience.

Full Review | Jul 22, 2025

Warfare is an impressive technical achievement that shows the most accurate and realistic depiction of combat that we’ve ever seen.

Full Review | Original Score: 8.5/10 | Jul 20, 2025

These men as depicted are themselves blurred depictions, meaning we don't see them or get to know them in any significant or deeper way. They're not humans. They're just action figures. Therefore, it's hard for me to connect...

Full Review | Jul 12, 2025

It’s about remembering that the lives of our enlisted men and women remain important despite our government’s desire to use them as expendable cogs in a machine. Martyrdom isn’t a prerequisite to prove one’s purpose.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 4, 2025

Without a doubt, one of the best anti-war films of recent times. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 16, 2025

The experience is heartbreaking, distressing, desolate, but not since Kathryn Bigelow's feature films (Zero Dark Thirty and especially The Hurt Locker) has there been an undertaking in the war genre like this. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 13, 2025

Garland and Mendoza deliver an intense and immersive experience with stunning technical execution and gripping realism, all heightened by masterful editing and sound design. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 10, 2025

One of the most nightmarish depictions of modern warfare ever captured on screen...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 3, 2025

Tough, direct and uncompromising, Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland's vision of 'Warfare' is more pessimistic than exciting. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | May 24, 2025

Based on real events, and co-directed by a former Navy SEAL, this embedded view of combat offers terror and thrills in equal parts

Full Review | May 16, 2025

Garland successfully continues his mission to challenge audiences to grasp the humanity within a conflict, even among viewers whose politics may not agree.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | May 14, 2025

The sort of film where you're reverberating after it because it's just so powerful.

Full Review | May 13, 2025

It's really a nice tribute to... those soldiers.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 12, 2025

Writer-directors Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland … create moments of chaos, blood and pain that are as close as I or any other civilian likely will want to be to the fight.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 10, 2025

It's a remarkable display of technical realism, a brutally honest recreation of a war zone, and a testament to cinema's power when it refuses to play by the rules.

Full Review | Original Score: B | May 9, 2025