Matt Oakes Silver Screen Riot Oct 14, 2026 A

One thing is certain: 'Fury' houses the best ensemble cast 2014 has yet seen.

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Christos Tsiolkas The Saturday Paper Aug 19, 2026

Fury wants to be more. But the reality is that director David Ayer lacks the formal technical skills and the ruthless daring to succeed.

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Nov 5, 2025 3/4

Fury depicts the brutality and the insanity of armed combat in punishing, visceral fashion.

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Ankit Ojha Cinema Elite Jul 9, 2024 4/5

Ayer wants you to empathize with the psychological damage war causes those thrust into it but doesn’t let that veer him away from letting you know that none of these characters—apart from Norman to an extent—are likable or remotely good people.

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Ross McIndoe The Skinny Jul 4, 2024 2/5

Its blood-and-gore approach seems less in service of historical realism and more a means of delivering the kind of masochistic machismo in which Ayer has a tendency to deal

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Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand Mar 8, 2024

[Director David] Ayer is all about conflict and collisions, between and within groups of violent men, and has consistently made the violence in his cinema visceral and vivid.

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Q.V. Hough Vague Visages Jun 22, 2023

What makes Fury unique as a piece of filmmaking is Ayer’s propensity to remind of how disposable we are as human beings.

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Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Jul 18, 2022 2.5/4

Ayer’s brief moments of pathos weigh far less on the viewer than his prevalent obsession with the violence and gore of war.

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Cory Woodroof Williamson Home Page Feb 11, 2022

For Fury, the cast, direction and cinematography are standouts, but nothing sticks more than the tone. Its a film that makes itself memorable long after the theater lights go up.

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Dan Brightmore NME (New Musical Express) May 26, 2021 4/5

Fury bluntly underlines the dehumanising terror of conflict as the crew lurch from one suicide mission to the next.

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David Walsh World Socialist Web Site Feb 12, 2021

Fury is not really about World War II. It is directed in large part, consciously or not, toward the defense of current American military involvements and war crimes.

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Richard Crouse Richard Crouse Feb 2, 2021 4/5

The action scenes are certainly exciting, but it is the quieter moments where the movie makes the point that War is Hell no matter what side you are on.

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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Dec 4, 2020 8/10

There's no distinct line between good and evil, no knights in shining armor, and only a tenuous grasp on what separates right from wrong.

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Chris McCoy Memphis Flyer Jan 8, 2020

There's no quick cutting, handheld camera designed to disorient. Ayer builds and releases tension the hard way, with careful sequences that efficiently lay out who is doing what to whom.

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David Harris Spectrum Culture Nov 27, 2019 2.8/5

It all feels horribly hollow and unnecessary.

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Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Sep 6, 2019 3/5

Sometimes pretentious and sometimes straining a bit too hard for an extra degree of pathos, it's nonetheless an arresting film that's often unsettling and unpredictable.

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Ryan Syrek The Reader (Omaha, NE) Aug 6, 2019 C+

If you asked him, chances are Ayers would claim that the meat of the film, the last 40 minutes, was "set up" by the methodical pauses preceding it. He'd be wrong, but that's probably what he'd say.

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Udita Jhunjhunwala Livemint Aug 5, 2019

The scenes that attempt to humanize the protagonists, while also portraying the darker side of war, are too contrived. But the raw battle scenes are riveting...but you cannot ignore the script's moral high ground.

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Leslie Combemale Cinema Siren Aug 2, 2019 5/5

Fury will stay with you, and will long be remembered as one of the best and most authentic character-driven feature films on WWII.

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Ellie Lucas The Dispatch (Lexington, NC) Jul 5, 2019 3.5/4

A bold, raw look at a war we only thought we understood.

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