The director talks about the new Iraq War drama that recreates a Navy SEAL team's firefight in Ramadi in 2006.

After earning a glowing response from both audiences and critics, Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s Warfare is now available to ...

Making the film “Warfare” was an exercise in exposure therapy for the veterans whose memories it reconstructs.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I just had to treat him like a character.” There was one scene, though, that Mendoza found especially difficult, as Ray drags an unconscious, badly maimed Elliott inside after an IED attack.

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 ...

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 ...

Warfare will be available to watch digitally from May 6, 2025. Warfare is not yet available on any streaming services in the ...