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Review: Twelve O'Clock High (1949)

Twelve O’Clock High is a great account of the physical and mental toll on active servicemen, as well as a gripping portrayal of the nuts and bolts of daytime precision bombing during World War II.

1917 (2019) Is Slick and Relentless, But Unconvincing as a Study of War

1917 can only seem incredibly real and immersive for generations far removed from the actual horrors of 1914–1918.

Table Talk: Da 5 Bloods (2020)

Anders and Anton discuss the new Spike Lee Vietnam War film, Da 5 Bloods, and how it fits into Lee’s on filmography, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the legacy of American imperialism in Southeast Asia.

RoundtablesAnders BergstromJune 26, 2020Table Talk, Spike Lee, war movie, drama, race, Vietnam, Delroy LIndo, Clarke Peters, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Jonathan Majors, Norm Lewis, Paul Walter Hauser, Melanie Thierry, Jaspar Paakonen, Jean RenoComment

Review: Fear and Desire (1953)

Kubrick’s first feature is an intriguing yet flawed allegorical war picture.

Reviews, Overlooked and Under-AppreciatedAnton BergstromNovember 22, 2018Stanley Kubrick, Howard Sackler, Frank Silvera, Kenneth Harp, Paul Mazursky, Stephen Coit, Virginia Leith, David Allen, Fear and Desire, war, war movie, anti-war movie, allegory, first film, low-budgetComment

Review: Darkest Hour (2017)

Splendid parts, but mostly conventional, with one egregious miscalculation.

Reviews, The Current: At HomeAnton BergstromApril 5, 2018Darkest Hour, Joe Wright, Anthony McCarten, Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Stephen Dillane, Ronald Pickup, Ben Mendelsohn, World War II, politics, war movie, British, Winston Churchill, DunkirkComment

A Few Thoughts on Defamiliarization in Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge

Featuring various techniques of defamiliarization, Hacksaw Ridge is war film that is both conventional and original, and, ultimately, deeply affecting.