Kit Connor's new movie Warfare has been called "breathtaking" with a strong Rotten Tomatoes score.
The new film, which comes from directors and writers Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza, is based on the latter's real-life experience as a US Navy SEAL and follows a platoon in the Iraq War in 2006 as they conduct a mission through insurgent territory.
The movie boasts an impressive cast including the Heartstopper actor, Stranger Things' Joseph Quinn, The Bear's Will Poulter, May December's Charles Melton, Reservation Dogs' D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai and Shōgun's Cosmo Jarvis.
After earning early critical buzz, Warfare has debuted to an impressive 93% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes (at the time of writing), with particular praise towards its technical achievements – though some critics argued that it drops the ball on some other elements.
Here's what they've been saying:
Inverse
"Few American war movies have featured the kind of breathtaking tension Warfare instills – or the kind of eardrum-rupturing sound."
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Empire
"War is hell, and Warfare refuses to shy away from it. Free of the operatics of most supposed anti-war films, it’s all the more effective for its simplicity. It is respectfully gruelling."
The Standard
"The sheer technical brilliance and strength of performances, cannot fail to connect when you take on the film on its own terms, as pure human experience in the most hellish of circumstances."
The Hollywood Reporter
"Garland is working in peak form and with dazzling technical command in what’s arguably his best film since his debut, Ex Machina."
The Times
"This is a movie that’s as difficult to watch as it is to forget. It’s a sensory blitz, a percussive nightmare and a relentless assault on the soul."
The Guardian
"Warfare really does show the punishing boredom of a soldier’s life. But it is weirdly obtuse and self-congratulatory, the shock of its ending softened by some bizarrely misjudged material over the closing credits."
The Independent
"All Warfare has to offer, inevitably, is the violence itself, stripped from its source, like Men and Civil War before it. If the point is to warn us of its monstrousness, what can a film of this ilk offer if it bears no clues as to the origins of its birth?"
Warfare arrives in US cinemas on April 11 and UK cinemas on April 18.
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