Warfare (2025)

[…]The film actually seems to resolve some of the questions surrounding the politics of Civil War (2024). One question, though: whose memories?

Warfare, its brutality undone by a coda that tranquilizes the anxiety it has worked so hard to produce, takes a political stance of which it doesn’t seem to be aware. […] But absence of politics is political. To make Warfare as catharsis for invaders who, whatever their personal beliefs, were part of an unlawful occupation that inflicted enormous suffering on Iraq is a choice that privileges their sacrifice and esteems their ability to endure the primal challenge of war.

— Evan Hill (Los Angeles Review of Books)

Is this just the politically and morally detached faithful documentation of a disorganized, panicky troop of untried soldiers temporarily trapped in a building on a botched mission? Or is there actually a message or even—gasp—a metaphor for the larger failures of the Iraq War building up there?

— Michael Sandlin (Cineaste, Fall 2025)