It's hard to get past the feeling that there had to be a better movie there.

| Mar 28, 2018

Pitt's ridiculous, wildly over-the-top performance somehow keeps it all together.

| Jul 1, 2017

War Machine is a failure, but could perhaps have been a great film if it had tried a little harder to pick a tone.

| Jun 9, 2017

The real problem is that, in (presumably) trying to be ambiguous and complicated, the film ends up without any perspective at all on its main character.

| Jun 8, 2017

It's funny and sad and weary and wise, which feels just about right for now.

Full Review | Jun 5, 2017

A messy, troubling and strangely enjoyable film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2017

A strong cast, including Topher Grace, Anthony Michael Hall, Alan Ruck, Ben Kingsley, Meg Tilley and Scoot McNairy round out the impressive ensemble and help this satire land its blows.

| Original Score: B | Jun 5, 2017

It's sort of fascinating to watch Pitt aim for something close to George C. Scott's hyper-confident Gen. Buck Turgidson from the Stanley Kubrick 1964 Cold War classic "Dr. Strangelove.

| Jun 5, 2017

The absolute absence of intimacy, of psychology, of characters' self-revelation in thought and desire, is a failure of form and style as much as of content.

| Jun 5, 2017

A confused comedy that wastes the promise of its premise. And Brad Pitt's performance, sadly, belongs in a different film entirely.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 29, 2017

Brad Pitt pushes the role of a rogue general too far into caricature and defangs the film by forgetting that world leaders and policy wonks don't mean a thing if they're not flesh and blood.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 26, 2017

A muddled satire about the war in Afghanistan awkwardly forced to camouflage its lead character behind a pseudonym.

| May 26, 2017

A film that veers wildly from war movie to character drama to satire to history piece to a blended gray of nothing.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 26, 2017

I wouldn't be surprised if some observers say Pitt made huge miscalculations in his acting choices with the result being the worst performance of his career - but I found it to be a brazenly effective piece of work, well-suited to the material.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 26, 2017

It's broad (sometimes cartoonishly so) and a bit all over the place, but it still manages to occasionally sting and leave a welt.

| Original Score: B+ | May 26, 2017

An uneven satire boosted by a larger-than-life performance from Brad Pitt.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 26, 2017

Brad Pitt stars as the deluded but determined four-star US army general Glen McMahon in this satire on the late days of the war in Afghanistan.

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

Pitt's oddly jokey performance as General Glen McMahon tends to overwhelm everything going on around him. That's too bad, because this anti-war satire has barbs a'plenty for pride, ignorance and the American can-do spirit.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 25, 2017

For all its biting political satire, and cogent military analysis, War Machine is an antiwar movie that is profoundly pro-warrior.

Full Review | May 25, 2017

War Machine is certainly worth seeing, but it doesn't score the direct hit I was hoping for. It's too bad that a handful of flaws work against the film's complete success.

| May 25, 2017