War is hell, but for the movies, it’s something more complicated. ... It’s war as a visual exercise, like a battle plan plotted on an otherworldly map. Stream Dune: Part Two on Netflix.

Ever since, American films have largely eschewed the tidy morality and view of combat that defined pre-Vietnam war movies. Even the last “good war”—the second world war—had its shine ...

For nearly as long as we’ve been waging war, we’ve sought ways to chronicle it. “Warfare,” a new movie co-directed by the filmmaker Alex Garland and the former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, takes ...

Alex Garland’s quintissential combination of great characrer development and heart-pounding action can be found in tons of other war movies. By Madeline Lapreziosa April 12, 2025, 1:00pm ...

The war was more than a decade in and some eight years from its conclusion when a 25-year-old Martin Scorsese made this six-minute short. In it, a man simply shaves himself before a sink and a mirror.