Dunkirk dramatizes the complexity of war—both its horrors and heroism—while admirably not straying beyond the boundaries of a PG-13 rating.
If you’ve seen French director Luc Besson’s 1997 sci-fi extravaganza The Fifth Element, you’ve got an inkling of what to …
Michael Bay’s latest Transformer movie never transforms itself into anything worth watching.
Megan Leavey is an inspiring story about two war heroes: a determined young woman and the dog she unexpectedly bonds …
In an entertainment landscape obsessed with flawed heroes, unlikeable heroes and antiheroes, Diana is—unapologetically—a real hero.
By the time The Wall crawls to its grim conclusion, it has mightily sought to subvert the American hero war …
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is a passable, if still problematic, diversion. But it’s not Camelot. Not even close.
So what we have here is a meticulously crafted and slow-moving film that captures the life of a man consumed …
The Zookeeper’s Wife, based on a true story, is a tender, beautiful, courage-filled movie. It’s also grim, devastating, at times …
“I have seen so much killing, so much war. I cannot bear more.” So says the heroine Selene near the …
Rogue One is theoretically a different kind of Star Wars movie. Except that it’s not.
Allied is several things all at once: a racy, violent spy romance. A war movie. And an ethical brain twister.
The essence of Ang Lee’s perspective seems to be that war is horrifically complicated. And what it does to those …
Hacksaw Ridge is riveting cinema. But it’s also bloody—as bloody as we’ve seen on screen for a long, long time.
In Independence Day: Resurgence, love—of country, of home, of others—conquers all, even if aliens destroy much of humanity before we …
