While the presence of cameras and White House replica sets bring a touch of theatricality to proceedings, everyone taking part is fully committed to the exercise.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2024

As a simultaneously slick and provocative entertainment, “War Game” is chilling and a tad infuriating, offering a white-knuckle ride that may feel a bit too fresh in the memory for viewers who are still traumatized by the real thing.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 29, 2024

This was fascinating, urgent and important.

| Aug 28, 2024

If that’s not scary enough, “War Game” shows how social media and 온라인카지노추천 news could be weaponized against the legitimate government.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 27, 2024

The participants are fully invested in their roles, responding to the threat and increasing pressure as if the future of our democracy truly was on the line. Because it is.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 16, 2024

Ably taps into a gathering darkness present in society, but seems to have no thesis, one way or another, on whether American identity, and indeed the American experiment, can survive the savvy machinations of those who vilify democracy for personal gain.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 3, 2024

War Game concentrates a lot on the “how to” part. But it also says a lot about how eerily easy and how horrifyingly relatable the “why” of it all is.

| Aug 2, 2024

The set-up is detailed, serious, and all too believable.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 2, 2024

War Game is blunt and effective. It’s easy to get swept up by the ticktock storytelling, and to be moved both by the recent history it invokes and by the sincerity of its participants.

| Aug 1, 2024

However stilted War Game may feel cinematically, it registers with full force as a realistic depiction of a nightmarish scenario that could easily occur

| Aug 1, 2024

By setting up such a potentially cataclysmic scenario and not convincingly illustrating how it could be resolved or stopped from occurring in the first place, War Game undercuts the very reason it was made.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 27, 2024

“War Game” serves as a warning that if history repeats itself, the difference between doing so as farce or tragedy rests on a knife’s edge.

| Mar 20, 2024

Moss and Gerber clearly understand that the ticktock of this hypothetical insurgency will make for exciting cinema, but they’re also interested in how the people participating in this simulation got here.

| Jan 26, 2024

The exercise is consistently interesting, but feels a bit shallow at times.

| Jan 24, 2024

There’s a certain breed of political junkie who will be profoundly moved by the film, but that person already follows all of its “cast” members on Threads and has purchased 60 percent of their memoirs. Every scene simply preaches to the converted.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 24, 2024

In raising some of the questions that desperately need to be asked before next January, it serves as an urgent warning.

| Jan 23, 2024