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Written and directed by Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland (Civil War, 28 Days Later), Warfare embeds audiences with a platoon of American Navy SEALs on a surveillance mission gone wrong in insurgent territory. A visceral, boots-on-the-ground story of modern warfare and brotherhood, told like never before: in real time and based on the memory of the people who lived it.

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Narratively cut to the bone and geared up with superb filmmaking craft, Warfare evokes the primal terror of combat with unnerving power.

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Warfare viscerally places you in the trenches with bone-crunching realism, honoring the soldier experience while simultaneously philosophizing on the impossibility of their sacrifice.

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Danny Leigh

Financial Times

You could condense the story into a sentence, but Garland and Mendoza have such a taut hold on the material, seconds take on the drama of epics.

Rated: 3/5

Apr 17, 2025

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Donald Clarke

Irish Times

Many will retain understandable uneasiness about the project, but few could deny the technical brilliance and dedication to an austere brief. An essential watch. Though maybe just the once.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 16, 2025

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David Sims

The Atlantic

What if you stripped away all the hooky plotting typical of military dramas, and just put an unembellished skirmish from a real war on-screen? Would it still work as cinema? The answer is yes.

Apr 15, 2025

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JD Duran

InSession Film

Warfare is collection of memories from these soldiers manifested cinematically to poignantly tribute and reconcile with what happened...letting art be their catharsis.

Rated: B+

Apr 18, 2025

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Jack Martin

Film Feeder

Warfare is perhaps the most realistic portrayal yet of military life, in all its mundane and somewhat cold but also gruesome nature, one that invites the viewer to come to their own conclusions surrounding the underlying politics of it all.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 18, 2025

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Abby Olcese

The Pitch

What Warfare presents is an artistic exercise in immersive filmmaking and performance. Whether it makes a lasting impact (and to what end) is another question entirely.

Apr 17, 2025

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Sam B

Great movie put together well

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

04/18/25

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Adrian

The character development through out the movie was amazing. Really gave a goo sense of connection that makes this movie impressive compared to a lot of other movies in the genre.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

04/18/25

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Christopher

This is amazing really cool movie mani love this movie it’s fire the scenes that everything the gunfight, the brotherhood mostly the other the brotherhood

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/18/25

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andy

Very intense movie. Location of the whole movie is in on house and small neighborhood. I like more of a full story line instead of one intense combat scene. If you want to see what soldiers go through in the worst situation for 1 1/2 hours. Than you would like this movie

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

04/18/25

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STARBOY

Incredible sound design .. Great casting. Over all the film is a must see!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/18/25

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Donnation G

A war masterpiece and unlike any war movie you’ve seen. Not for the squeamish but worth every minute. A spectacular film.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/18/25

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Written and directed by Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland (Civil War, 28 Days Later), Warfare embeds audiences with a platoon of American Navy SEALs on a surveillance mission gone wrong in insurgent territory. A visceral, boots-on-the-ground story of modern warfare and brotherhood, told like never before: in real time and based on the memory of the people who lived it.

Director: Ray Mendoza, Alex Garland
Producer: Andrew Macdonald, Mathew Penry-Davey, Allon Reich, Peter Rice
Screenwriter: Ray Mendoza, Alex Garland
Distributor: A24
Production Co: DNA Films
Rating: R (Language Throughout|Intense War Violence|Bloody/Grisly Images)
Genre: War, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 11, 2025, Wide
Runtime: 1h 35m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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