The Iraq War lasted from 2003 until 2011 and was caused by several factors, including then-dictator Saddam Hussein's claim that his country was in possession of WMDs, or weapons of mass ...

I knew from the first few seconds that “Warfare” was going to be a different kind of war movie. Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland’s film about a real battle in the Iraq War opens with a sexy ...

Then, it all goes wrong – the beginning of an agonizingly tense, bloody and chaotic reenactment of a real firefight that took place almost two decades ago in Iraq. Former Navy SEAL Tay Mendoza ...

"Warfare" embeds the audience in a real-time depiction of modern combat in Iraq, based on the experiences ... to come to terms with the ordeal of war. "War is not so black and white sometimes.

The two co-wrote and co-directed the film, which reconstructs an incident from the Iraq War, in November 2006, when a routine mission by Mendoza and his fellow SEALs went dangerously awry.

It captures a sliver of experience that unfolded during the Iraq War and does so with disquieting skill. Yet it's stripped of drama and "shaped" cinematic excitement, so you may feel both involved ...

Ray Mendoza knew he needed to make “Warfare.” The pulse-pounding Iraq War drama (in theaters Friday) is co-directed by the retired Navy SEAL, who dedicated the film to his platoonmate ...