The legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami once wryly remarked that he prefers "the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater." Frequently taken out of context, Kiarostami's statement was part of a larger rant against what he saw as a certain scourge in Western filmmaking,

In discarding Hollywood tropes in favor of truth, “Warfare” is one of the most viscerally powerful stories about combat ever filmed.

Alex Garland and real-life Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza use an all-star cast to provide a brief, brutal summation of a war without answers.