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The director talks about the new Iraq War drama that recreates a Navy SEAL team's firefight in Ramadi in 2006.
Making the film “Warfare” was an exercise in exposure therapy for the veterans whose memories it reconstructs.
After earning a glowing response from both audiences and critics, Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s Warfare is now available to ...
Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza's film — a real-time recreation of a 2006 battle — had several key factors they wouldn’t compromise on, from the age of the actors to adding Hollywood ...
While watching an opening scene featuring Jane Fonda style aerobics, you likely won’t predict that you are about to ...
What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: Warfare is likely to stand next to The Hurt Locker as the definitive depictions of the ...
The take was too perfect. Ray Mendoza, the first-time director of Warfare, was watching D’Pharoah Woon-A-Tai drag the limp, unconscious body of Cosmo Jarvis away from the wreckage of a massive ...
Tasha Robinson is Polygon’s entertainment editor. She’s covered film, TV, books, and more for 20 years, including at The A.V. Club, The Dissolve, and The Verge. Watching Warfare, Alex Garland ...
Few other American war films have come this close to acknowledging the true suffering of combat. The second half of Warfare takes place over the constant screaming of soldiers whose bowels are visibly ...
Warfare will be available to watch digitally from May 6, 2025. Warfare is not yet available on any streaming services in the ...
The film is an exercise in reminiscence therapy, an attempt to build a memory from scratch from the movie’s co-director, Ray Mendoza, for his friend and platoon member, Elliot Miller ...
For his new war film, Garland entered a world that belonged to a former soldier, Ray Mendoza. The result was Warfare, an immersive new war film from writer-directors Garland and Mendoza.