War films
Sisu review – grisly feast of extravagant violence as Finnish hero slaughters Nazis
Cheerfully entertaining action film follows a granite-faced Finnish gold miner with a hunting knife as he kills the enemy in wildly silly ways
Cath Clarke
24, May, 2023 @10:00 AM
Blood and Gold review – second world war spaghetti western is good pulpy fun
A deserting Nazi private and a local farmer’s daughter enact bloody revenge on plundering troops in this tightly-staged switch-your-brain-off entertainment
Leslie Felperin
24, May, 2023 @6:00 AM
Butterfly Vision review – grim drama about Ukrainian prisoners of the Donbas war
This film offers an unsparing view of how PoWs are treated when they return home – but it may not reflect the current mood
Cath Clarke
15, May, 2023 @10:00 AM
Post your questions for Tara Fitzgerald
Got something you’d like to ask the flugelhorn-tooting forensic scientist and all-round star of stage and screen? Send it our way and we’ll put it to her
Rich Pelley
07, Apr, 2023 @5:00 AM
Condor’s Nest review – Tarantino-esque Nazi-hunt thriller heads for the pampas
Director Phil Blattenberger wears his love for the genre on his sleeve, but this allows him to outrun the film’s uneven execution and loose plot
Phil Hoad
13, Mar, 2023 @9:00 AM
All Quiet on the Western Front wins best international feature film Oscar
German-language war epic triumphs in the category for non-English language films
Andrew Pulver
13, Mar, 2023 @1:43 AM
Why All Quiet on the Western Front should win the best picture Oscar
Gut-churning battlefield realism and the unfamiliar German perspective take this powerful first world war film outside the usual war movie territory
Andrew Pulver
06, Mar, 2023 @9:51 AM
Tom Sizemore: the tough guy who held his own opposite Hollywood’s biggest names
In a career which often saw him play characters with a streak of ruthlessness, it was as a soldier with a heart of gold in Saving Private Ryan that he truly excelled
Peter Bradshaw
04, Mar, 2023 @5:50 AM
Tom Sizemore, star of Saving Private Ryan, dies aged 61 after brain aneurysm
The actor, best known for his tough-guy roles in war and action movies including Black Hawk Down, also had a turbulent private life
Andrew Pulver
04, Mar, 2023 @3:50 AM
Not so quiet on the western front | Letters
Letters: The new film sets up a myth in a way that would have delighted the National Socialists, writes Roger Macy, while Ian Ferguson thinks the remake adds nothing to the novel
03, Mar, 2023 @6:03 PM
Ambush review – battle fatigued Nam actioner fights worn-out war tropes
This low-budget effort featuring phoned-in turns from Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Aaron Eckhart ticks off all the cliches while lacking a moral perspective
Phil Hoad
27, Feb, 2023 @11:00 AM
Germans are right to be incensed by All Quiet on the Western Front: it paints them as the good guys | Nicholas Barber
Making changes to a classic novel is one thing – but this retelling risks raising tensions at the worst possible time, says writer Nicholas Barber
Nicholas Barber
27, Feb, 2023 @10:00 AM
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