Clint Eastwood cleverly restages a real-life act of heroism in this intriguing and moving docudrama.
The grim realities of life in the World War One trenches is the subject of this rousing if unoriginal tale of soldiers on the edge of sanity.
Gary Oldman is on career-best form in this standard issue Winston Churchill biopic from director Joe Wright.
By Mark Allison
A group of German POWs are forced to dig up land mines in Martin Zandvliet’s war drama.
Doug Liman returns with a war-based theatrical three-hander about an injured US soldier being tormented by an Iraqi sharpshooter.
Christopher Nolan’s breathtaking historical opus attempts to give the viewer a taste of what war actually feels like.
This decent documentary captures the thrills and dangers of front-line war photography.
David Michôd and Brad Pitt serve up a fascinating but uneven satire of America’s military might.
By Amy Bowker
A dour monochrome melodrama is the latest from genre-hopping French workhorse, François Ozon.
By Adam Nayman
Ang Lee takes American exceptionalism to task in this hyper-real spectacle.
By Poppy Doran
Simon Dixon’s mercenary drama is liberal with the bullets but fails to hit gory glory.
Matthew McConaughey suffers from white saviour complex in this deeply problematic Civil War drama.
Stick with this World War Two-set assassination thriller – a dull start gives way to a heart-racing climax.
By Matthew Eng
Zachary Treitz’s lo-fi Civil War comedy offers an admirable, inventive take on a stodgy subgenre.
The startling, bleakly poetic debut feature from one of the movie pantheon greats, Andrei Tarkovsky.
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