9 reviews in this category.
All Quiet on the Western Front is a technically brilliant film with a clear ideological agenda, and those two things are inseparable from each other....
Platoon won Best Picture in 1986. It is Oliver Stone's Vietnam experience rendered as cinema. And it is, forty years later, still one of the most honest American war films ever made.…...
Fury is a war film made by someone who actually cares about war. Not the spectacle of it. The weight of it....
This review contains a genuine disagreement with itself, and that is appropriate for a film that has been doing the same thing since 1987....
Christopher Nolan made Dunkirk at the height of his commercial and critical power, coming off Interstellar and The Dark Knight trilogy, with the creative freedom to do whatever he wanted.…...
The first twenty-five minutes of Saving Private Ryan are among the most important minutes in the history of American cinema. Not because they are the most technically impressive war footage ever shot, though they are that.…...
Hacksaw Ridge is one of the most purely traditional films Hollywood has produced in the last twenty years. It is a story about faith, and it takes that faith seriously in a way that most war films don't dare.…...
The Patriot is the kind of film Hollywood stopped making around the time it started worrying about how America looked to foreign markets. It is unabashedly pro-American, pro-family, and pro-violent-resistance-to-tyranny.…...
Eight days. That is all that separates us from finding out whether the Academy goes with the crowd-pleasing vampire epic or the art-house literary adaptation. Whether Ryan Coogler takes home the gold or Paul Thomas Anderson finally gets his due.…...
