War Horse finds it hard to say even something comforting about the Great War. Instead, it poses a question: is the Hollywood master, with his recent record in mind, starting to lose his touch?

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 8, 2024

War Horse marks Spielberg's return to the war genre and the continuance of his journey along the promised path. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jun 21, 2023

“War Horse” is a solid effort from an all-time filmmaker, so it will always be looked upon as lesser. If someone else had made it, its reputation might be better, but as it stands, it’s a solid effort with some remarkable flourishes and structural flaws.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 23, 2023

Spielberg delivers an instant classic, and one of 2011’s very best films.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 6, 2023

Spielberg is mindful of the family audience, but still captures the misery of trench combat.

| Nov 16, 2022

Flaws aside, “War Horse” is a very watchable film and even flirts with occasional greatness. As expected, it’s technically sound with some beautiful camera work, fantastic locations, and crisp editing.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

War is still cruel and violent and Spielberg doesn't shy away from that. The realism balances the mythic overtones.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 8, 2022

War Horse shows why Steven Spielberg is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.

| Dec 24, 2021

Its plethora of protagonists is pitifully uninspiring.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 30, 2020

Beautiful to be hold yet impossible to surrender to film.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

'War Horse' is a truly emotional war adventure. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 24, 2020

For the most part this film is very manipulative with how it's trying to tug at your feelings. Most are going to call this one of the best films of the season or year but while this picture is executed superbly it's not really earned its heart one bit.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 11, 2020

For all his impact, Spielberg doesn't know when to apply the brakes and undermines his own efforts with ham-fisted and often cloying flourishes.

| Original Score: 2.2/5 | Nov 7, 2019

War Horse left me strangely and definitively unmoved on every level...

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 10, 2019

Almost as if Spielberg is performing surgery with a sledgehammer, constantly bashing the audience over the head with imagery and dialogue tailor-made to inform us how to feel at any given moment.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 8, 2019

There are times when War Horse seems like an odd mash-up of sensibilities, but overall, for horse lovers who can handle war movies, or for war movie lovers who can handle horse stories, it's a welcome Christmas present.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 6, 2019

War Horse is a moving tribute not just to the unsung heroes of the First World War -- horses -- but also the men who bravely fought alongside them.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 4, 2019

One of Spielberg's most inspiring, enjoyable efforts of the last twenty years.

| Dec 6, 2018

This is always emotionally obvious, as well as consistently predictable. Something important has been lost in translation that cannot be compensated for by realism or pictorial beauty.

| Aug 31, 2018

War Horse is a highly emotive, undeniably sentimental film, but for those who have been raised on Spielberg's canon, this sentimentality is something to be relished and enjoyed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2018