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Another seems to half-pass out, either from exhaustion or shock, while tending to a wounded comrade.

Warfare.

Their injuries are stomach-turning, their cries agonizing.

There are severed limbs strewn everywhere.

The distributor, A24, assures us we must experience it all in IMAX.

Mendoza is himself a former Navy SEAL and lived through the events depicted in the picture.

(Hes played in the movie byReservation Dogs DPharaoh Woon-A-Tai.)

Garland is a director who likes ground-level depictions of extreme, even surreal situations.

InWarfare, the fog of war is both a literal and spiritual fact.

Meanwhile, the insurgents attacking the American soldiers are truly faceless.

That film came under fire from some for not offering a clearly identifiable political perspective on its fictional conflict.

ThoughWarfaredepicts an instance from recent history, it would make a fine companion piece to its cinematic predecessor.

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