Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Apr 4, 2022 2/4

Given the story, the potential for biting satire, the cast and filmmaker, War Machine is disappointing for its toothless and unfunny result.

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Cory Woodroof Curnblog Feb 11, 2022

War is Hell, but War Machine is frustrating.

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Olly Richards NME (New Musical Express) May 4, 2021 3/5

America's disastrous peace mission in Afghanistan has been turned into a sharp, satirical comedy starring Brat Pitt.

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Joanne Laurier World Socialist Web Site Feb 22, 2021

The Netflix satire War Machine is a forceful work that depicts the futility and madness of war in general and the war in Afghanistan in particular.

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CJ Sheu Review Film Review Jul 1, 2020

It left me deeply unsatisfied, and I kept pondering why.

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Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens Oct 30, 2019

While War Machine never gets all guns firing, it nevertheless provides a biting commentary on a war effort that goes from the dark to the absurd.

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Richard Trenholm CNET Apr 16, 2019

Pitt's General spends most of the flick growing increasingly frustrated that nothing is happening -- and I know the feeling.

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Calum Baker One Room With A View Mar 4, 2019 2/5

Underusing countless charismatic performers in his ragtag bunch of what one assumes should be colourful characters, Michôd hasn't created a satisfying film so much as a series of impressively lifeless scenes.

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Sean Mulvihill FanboyNation.com Oct 31, 2018 3/5

There's just no consistency throughout its two-hour examination of the behind the scenes machinations of the military-industrial complex.

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Jacob Oller Film School Rejects Aug 28, 2018

The meandering military story fails to win hearts or minds.

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Qamar Shafiq Geeks of Color Aug 20, 2018 2/5

Wildly absurdist, it works well as a satire of militaristic bureaucracy, but it's very inconsistent in its voice. It's surprising that it was written and directed by the same person because it feels like it was crowdsourced.

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Brad Newsome Sydney Morning Herald Mar 28, 2018

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

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David Blanco Culturamas Dec 29, 2017

What could have been an important denunciation of those responsible behind the longest war in which the United States has participated, remains an attempt at an antimilitarist film from which it is difficult to draw conclusions. [Full review in Spanish]

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Joe Reid Decider Dec 19, 2017

You walk away from War Machine with more questions than answers, unfortunately.

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Jason Guerrasio Business Insider Dec 18, 2017

Though the real-life events of McChrystal and his team are ripe for satire, War Machine gets too caught up in the fog of war to give its audience anything to latch onto.

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Robert Kojder Flickering Myth Dec 5, 2017 2/5

Brad Pitt isn't particularly very good in War Machine, delivering a performance so far into cartoonish military caricature that it's tough to buy into the absurdist humor and satire being leveled at the whole disaster of the Afghanistan war

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Danielle Solzman Solzy at the Movies Nov 26, 2017

...the military satire contains solid acting performances even as it misses on some levels.

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Glenn Heath Jr. Cineaste Magazine Nov 7, 2017

He deftly explores how cycles of human delusion help fuel failing foreign policies and rampant governmental hubris.

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Neil Soans The Times of India Nov 1, 2017 4/5

Don't be surprised to hear about award nominations on this one, and make sure to add it to your watch-list as soon as it's out.

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Sarah Marrs Lainey Gossip Oct 11, 2017

Brad Pitt's Netflix movie, War Machine, probably didn't play out as well as anyone hoped.

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