A War richly depicts, not only the physical war that Denmark was a part, but also this internal emotional war these characters faced. And the final product is beautiful and moving.

| Original Score: A | Aug 19, 2024

More than a simple condemnation of war, of which there are plenty, A War seeks to deliver a thorough examination of human behavior.

| Aug 1, 2023

The intent is purposeful, but the execution isn't entirely successful.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 12, 2021

A War is one of those "non-judgmental," "apolitical" films ... that is, in fact, thoroughly judgmental and political

| Feb 26, 2021

It arouse curiosity with the discourse of the consequences of ethical decisions in times of war and in each scenario makes us question the entire dilemma. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 26, 2020

A War is an emotionally powerful film, a thought-provoking, intelligent film which looks at both the challenges in the field and at home during wartime.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2019

Lindholm's film is one of the best movies about recent Western interventions into the Middle East, and a great post-9/11 war movie in its own right.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 8, 2019

Writer and director Tobias Lindholm proves once again how strong of a writer and director he can be and "A War" is one of his strongest films yet.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 5, 2019

While the film fails to plow new ground in the war genre, it's meticulously crafted and wisely interprets pragmatism as a double-edged sword.

| Nov 3, 2018

In both a very literal and abstract sense, A War represents the universality of the human condition when put under extreme pressure and the lengths one is willing to go to in times of despair.

| Aug 6, 2018

While this isn't anything groundbreaking or earth-shattering, there are a handful of aspects that make A WAR something to see - so long as you don't go out of your way for it.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 5, 2017

The virtues of A War are also its biggest deficit: a leisureliness and inevitability that drain the effect from what is otherwise a solidly constructed drama.

| Oct 25, 2017

An almost invisibly crafted film that manages to be both original and startlingly topical by addressing the highly emotive subject of soldiers being tried in civilian courts for decisions made or acts carried out in the heated chaos of war.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 25, 2017

This is an important film and should be seen.

| Sep 15, 2017

Lindholm anchors this conflict in our own empathy for the characters, so that we find ourselves in the same murky moral ground as Claus.

| Jul 14, 2017

With intense and contained performances, particularly by Asbaek and Novotny, A War depicts a moral dilemma that is as complicated as it frustrating.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 31, 2016

[In its early stages,] it is absorbing and occasionally tense. Its second half, however, is disappointing.

| Dec 19, 2016

If A War can't, at the last, land the gutpunch of its predecessor, it scores points enough to provide a worthy watch -- and to confirm its writer-director as among the preeminent agonised consciences in contemporary world cinema.

| Dec 13, 2016

Deeply troubling and appropriately ambiguous, A War is a fine and sobering movie.

| Dec 12, 2016

Pilou Asbk is extraordinary, a bundle of tense, scared misery and self-hatred.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 5, 2016