The war genre in the 1970s became crueler, darker, and angrier, exploring the conflict's contradictions in movies like The ...

Some critics say that Oscar-buzzy films like One Battle After Another and After the Hunt don’t go far enough in their political commentary, which speaks to a growing expectation for straightforward ...

There are exceptions for sure, but most war movies should capture some kind of heaviness, or emotional intensity, since war itself is blatantly bad for reasons that hopefully don’t need to be ...

One Battle After Another is, perhaps, too on the nose. Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic depicts past and present revolutionaries fighting back against a heavily militarized, white-supremacist regime that ...