Filmmakers Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza recount a military detail that turns into a rescue mission in the most visceral, near-immersive way possible.

Using his memories, as well as the recollections of the men who were there, Mendoza has crafted a taut, harrowing reenactment that initially brings to mind the adage that war can best be described as ...

War-movie cliches have been rigorously rooted out of "Warfare," a terse and chillingly brutal immersion in a moment of the ...