A War: reviews

What the critics say average 8.8 from 4

• 10 VarietyGuy Lodge "In its nerve-shattering first half, it conveys the on-the-ground maelstrom of combat as vividly as any film on the subject." Read
• 9.1 The PlaylistJessica Kiang "This tension only increases as the movie wears on and the feeling mounts that we are operating on borrowed time, especially, to give an added lurch to the stomach, when children play a role in so many of the encounters." Read
• 8.0 The TelegraphTim Robey "He doesn?t make life easy for his audience, or for his actors: Asbæk had the equivalent of Tom Hanks?s Captain Phillips role in that picture, and here he?s wracked again, by the jitters of desert strife and then the abstract horror of what he?s mistakenly perpetrated." Read
• 8.0 EmpireOlly Richards "Is a powerful war drama that shows a soldier (Pilou Asbæk) in Afghanistan making a snap decision that could save lives but ruin his own. It?s a riveting, complex film that asks one simple question: what do you do when there?s no right answer?" Read