REVIEW – ‘Warfare’ is a war film that neither glorifies nor sanctifies, but simply bears witness
In a year already flush with high-concept genre films, Warfare lands with a kind of blistering clarity that is difficult to ignore. Directed by former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, in collaboration with Alex Garland, the film is a nerve-fraying, pulse-rattling war drama that deliberately forgoes conventional storytelling for an immersive and, at times, punishingly authentic battlefield experience. It is an experiment in form and endurance, one that asks the viewer not to follow a story so much as survive it. To watch Warfare is to feel ensnared in...