Ayer wants you to empathize with the psychological damage war causes those thrust into it but doesn’t let that veer him away from letting you know that none of these characters—apart from Norman to an extent—are likable or remotely good people.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 9, 2024

Its blood-and-gore approach seems less in service of historical realism and more a means of delivering the kind of masochistic machismo in which Ayer has a tendency to deal

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 4, 2024

[Director David] Ayer is all about conflict and collisions, between and within groups of violent men, and has consistently made the violence in his cinema visceral and vivid.

| Mar 8, 2024

What makes Fury unique as a piece of filmmaking is Ayer’s propensity to remind of how disposable we are as human beings.

| Jun 22, 2023

Ayer’s brief moments of pathos weigh far less on the viewer than his prevalent obsession with the violence and gore of war.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 18, 2022

For Fury, the cast, direction and cinematography are standouts, but nothing sticks more than the tone. Its a film that makes itself memorable long after the theater lights go up.

| Feb 11, 2022

Fury bluntly underlines the dehumanising terror of conflict as the crew lurch from one suicide mission to the next.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 26, 2021

Fury is not really about World War II. It is directed in large part, consciously or not, toward the defense of current American military involvements and war crimes.

| Feb 12, 2021

The action scenes are certainly exciting, but it is the quieter moments where the movie makes the point that War is Hell no matter what side you are on.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 2, 2021

There's no distinct line between good and evil, no knights in shining armor, and only a tenuous grasp on what separates right from wrong.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 4, 2020

There's no quick cutting, handheld camera designed to disorient. Ayer builds and releases tension the hard way, with careful sequences that efficiently lay out who is doing what to whom.

| Jan 8, 2020

It all feels horribly hollow and unnecessary.

| Original Score: 2.8/5 | Nov 27, 2019

Sometimes pretentious and sometimes straining a bit too hard for an extra degree of pathos, it's nonetheless an arresting film that's often unsettling and unpredictable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 6, 2019

If you asked him, chances are Ayers would claim that the meat of the film, the last 40 minutes, was "set up" by the methodical pauses preceding it. He'd be wrong, but that's probably what he'd say.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 6, 2019

The scenes that attempt to humanize the protagonists, while also portraying the darker side of war, are too contrived. But the raw battle scenes are riveting...but you cannot ignore the script's moral high ground.

| Aug 5, 2019

Fury will stay with you, and will long be remembered as one of the best and most authentic character-driven feature films on WWII.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 2, 2019

A bold, raw look at a war we only thought we understood.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 5, 2019

Overall Fury says nothing very new, its ambitions to be more than an action movie seem pretentious and, despite its technical prowess, it has the feeling of a rather old-fashioned war film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 3, 2019

Raw and realistic, Fury's strength derives from its people whether in combat or its aftermath.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 31, 2019

Anyone who thinks this movie is rollicking good fun belongs on some kind of watch list.

| Mar 6, 2019