...mostly due to its modest length and effective lead performance, I'm inclined to give The Wall a modest recommendation...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 24, 2020

Though overall it may be better to wait for the home viewing, for those looking for tension-filled distraction on film and in a darkened theater, The Wall is for you.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 18, 2019

Too one-dimensional and not nearly compelling enough for the big screen.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 12, 2019

Not bad for a work of precise suspense, ultimately inconsequential, but very effective. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 20, 2019

The Wall is an unsatisfying, depressing film, with too little happening, little new to say, and characters that we do not really get to know.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 1, 2019

Liman's decision to shoot in anamorphic 16mm helps, as we get cosy with Ize behind that wall and see all the grit, grain, blood, and sweat up close.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 17, 2019

The Wall isn't a bad film by any means, it's just a victim of the inevitable march of history.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 25, 2018

This narrow, effective, and cynical war movie proves that filmmakers don't always need a huge budget or pricey movie stars to make something substantial and worthwhile.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 20, 2018

[Doug] Liman can't find anything fascinating for his characters to do except writhe in the misery of being in the desert with a gunshot wound and cottonmouth.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 12, 2018

The Wall is a sharp thriller that's intense from start to finish and really highlights the Liman's incredible skills on a smaller scale.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2018

It is no small feat to create an unbearable sense of tension and claustrophobia in an endless expanse of windswept desert. The Wall, however, does so brilliantly.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 10, 2018

The premise runs short quickly. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 21, 2018

Far from the exalted patriotism in Eastwood's American Sniper, [The Wall] is a cinematic joke that's sick of the propaganda campaign. [Full Review in Spanish]

| May 17, 2018

The best... that can be said of a movie like The Wall is that it manages to square up the impossible proposal and come out more than victorious by using that formula... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5 | May 15, 2018

This moderately suspenseful showdown on the front lines features committed performances even as it struggles to generate enough narrative momentum to justify its feature length.

| Jan 26, 2018

The Wall ... tries very hard to achieve that seriousness of purpose that shouts importance with every spoken word.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 25, 2018

The drama unfolds more or less in real time, and may be one of the grimiest, dustiest films I've ever seen.

| Dec 19, 2017

Liman's slight film is minimalist, claustrophobic and highly visceral

| Original Score: B | Oct 15, 2017

It feels more like a festival-pleaser than a commercial release, and it's not as clever, or as metaphorical, as it thinks it is.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 5, 2017

While The Wall hits the right notes with action, the dialogue is weak and gets trite very quickly.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 20, 2017