The dialogue ("We're not so different, you and I") can sound a little ripe, but the action is appropriately brutish and impeccably timed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2017

It's an interesting premise, with moments of tension and visceral gore, but Taylor-Johnson's performance isn't strong enough to rescue the film from lengthy stretches of banality.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 30, 2017

Like waterboarding, it ought to qualify as "cruel and unusual punishment".

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 28, 2017

A great premise poorly executed.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 28, 2017

Sometimes you're watching a movie and you know that it's not working, but you're clinging to it. You're pleading with it. You're willing it to get better. And then it does something so stupid and downright inept that you just give up.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 28, 2017

An eerie, menacing film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 27, 2017

Liman doesn't waste shots, but the writing just won't quit, determined for us to grasp all this as a microcosm for America's Iraq involvement and the mess it left behind.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 27, 2017

Given the constraints the filmmakers have imposed on themselves, this is a remarkably gripping affair.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 26, 2017

The increasingly impressive Taylor-Johnson dominates the screen time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2017

Whatever its shortcomings as a movie - and it gets long and dry and dull for a good long stretch - The Wall stays true to its own narrow, hellish vision of war.

| May 12, 2017

The posturing leads to an ending that's unsatisfying even on the level of pessimism it aspires to.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 12, 2017

It's a gruesome bit of a cat and mouse entertainment that will likely appease genre hounds while it frustrates and annoys anyone looking for something more substantive.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 12, 2017

This is a smart, gritty, quietly chaotic war movie which resonates far beyond its purposely small scale.

| Original Score: B+ | May 12, 2017

Liman ... elevates the material every chance he gets, ensuring what could have been a bargain-basement dramatic exercise looks and moves like a big-budget thrill ride.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 12, 2017

The Wall is the best kind of war film, one that expresses both the brutality of combat and the ambiguity of conflict.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 11, 2017

Strip away all of the camo and sand, and it could be a page out of a Jack London adventure yarn.

| Original Score: B- | May 11, 2017

The film's close focus on one or two individuals makes the situation that much scarier, the fear that much more intense. And it makes the overall impact of The Wall that much more profound.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 11, 2017

The Wall is tense and dynamic, tremendously active within the narrow parameters of the action.

| May 11, 2017

The vein-popping mood is ultimately more exhausting than exciting.

| May 11, 2017

More interesting than you might imagine. But not interesting enough.

| May 11, 2017