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

An impressively solid World War II movie of the kind they don't make anymore.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 5, 2015

While these orgies of violence are staged with tense, gruesome precision, they don't convey much beyond what we already know. Namely, that war is hell. Message received.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 5, 2015

Pitt, who at 50 still looks great with his shirt off, has the gruff charisma to play a dauntless soldier with killer courage and a vestigial streak of humanity.

| Jan 5, 2015

It's an "unflinching" account of war -- "unflinching," in quotes, because every moment of the film is composed to grind your face into the muck and be proud of itself for doing so.

| Jan 5, 2015

Pitt is at the top of his game, playing a man who has forgotten whatever he used to be and has wholly embraced his role in this war.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 5, 2015

Led by Pitt, who sublimates his persona so deeply into Wardaddy that you can forget about his movie star baggage, the cast is exceptional.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 5, 2015

At its best, the movie works as a love letter to camaraderie-by-combat.

| Nov 17, 2014

Undeniably stirring stuff ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2014

These appalling scenes aren't just memorably staged - also is their sense that as a species we might never be warm or clean again; that we are irrevocably smeared in leaf-mulch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 24, 2014

Fury is a thoroughly contradictory affair. It is an anti-war film that also wants to be an action thriller.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 23, 2014

Those of us expecting the intelligent character development of Band of Brothers, The Pacific and even Saving Private Ryan will find this to be little more than a display of five archetypes in a tin can.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 23, 2014

World War II is a distant memory now, and David Ayer's feature doesn't have anything very new to add to the movies set during that awful period.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 23, 2014

There are explosions lighting the night sky, but otherwise it illuminates nothing. I couldn't even figure out what it might be trying to illuminate, or even if it was trying to illuminate anything at all.

| Oct 23, 2014

Fury is proof that a film can be technically accurate and dramatically bogus, well made but also not much cop.

| Oct 23, 2014

Little of the dramatic material is convincing, in part because Pitt retains a kind of preening inwardness far removed from the matter-of-fact authority associated with, say, Lee Marvin.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 22, 2014

A reminder that World War II was a hellhole, no matter how great the Andrew Sisters were.

| Oct 20, 2014

"Fury" is literally visceral-a kind of war horror film, which is, of course, what good combat films should be.

| Oct 20, 2014

No doubt writer-director David Ayer went to painstaking lengths in re-creating details of the period: But his ambitious efforts will just leave audiences feeling battle-fatigued.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 20, 2014

Fury pivots around a pleasing simplicity. Good guys do good. Nazis get shot. A proper film, in other words. Did we mention Fury has a tank?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 20, 2014