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The 20 Best Movies Of 2025, According To CinemaBlend

The staff of CinemaBlend watched a lot of great films this year.

Cinemablend

I watch movies for a living — here's the 5 best I’ve seen in 2025 and where to stream them now

After seeing countless movies in theatres this year, these are the ones that stand out as my personal favorites and deserve all the hype.

Tom’s Guide

The best new shows and movies streaming this week on Netflix, Disney Plus, Amazon Prime Video, and more

Check out our guide to the best movies and shows streaming this week, September 16–21

Total Film

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HBO Max just added my favorite war movie of the year — and there’s one big reason it's a masterpiece

“Warfare" takes a real-time approach to storytelling that is supremely effective

Tom’s Guide

These are my top 5 movies to stream on HBO Max in September 2025, including a classic Stephen King adaptation with 91% on Rotten Tomatoes

Misery and Warfare are just two of the five movies I think you need to add to your HBO Max watchlist in September 2025.

TechRadar

New on HBO Max in September 2025 — All the New Shows and Movies to Watch

Our complete guide to everything you can look forward to streaming on HBO Max throughout September 2025.

Tom’s Guide

This heartstopping war movie with a 93% Rotten Tomatoes rating is one of the best Dolby Atmos movies of the year

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Warfare is Band of Brothers for the ‘war on terror’ generation

Back in 1998, Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan was widely acclaimed for the bloody realism of its opening scenes. In Warfare, co-directors Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland have achieved something very similar for the Iraq war (2003-2011).

The Conversation

What’s missing from Alex Garland’s Iraq movie Warfare? Context, motivation and, for the most part, Iraqis

I was there with US soldiers in 2006 and can see why the film-makers zoomed in on them so closely. But it results in glaring flaws, says Guardian senior international correspondent Peter Beaumont

The Guardian - UK

Warfare review – nerve-shredding real-time Iraq war film drags you into visceral frontline combat

Co-directors Alex Garland and former US Navy Seal Ray Mendoza recreate a 2006 battle with almost unbearable intensity – and a dazzling ensemble cast

The Guardian - UK

Ex Machina director's new movie with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score is a gory, brutal portrayal of war

Big Screen Spotlight | Warfare, co-directed by Annihilation's Alex Garland and former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, blurs the line between fact and fiction

Total Film

Warfare cast reflect on their breakout roles: ‘I’m forever thankful’

Exclusive: The new war film stars a who’s who of rising stars – they pick the films that launched their careers

The Independent UK

Is Warfare the most realistic war film ever made?

In Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s brutal and immersive new film, memory informs the events that take place in real time to a unit of soldiers in Iraq

The Guardian - US

An apolitical war film is impossible

The directors of "Warfare" claim their hyperrealistic movie has no message. That's not true at all

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The Guardian - UK

Iraq veteran and film-maker Ray Mendoza: ‘Writing Warfare with Alex Garland was like going to a therapist’

The former US Navy Seal on working alongside the Ex Machina director to produce a war movie that’s as true to life as possible

Latin Times

Why 'Warfare' Has No Score—and What Michael Gandolfini, Kit Connor and Will Poulter Say About That Choice - INTERVIEW

Interview with the main actors of the new Alex Garland movie about how it will change the genre of war films.

Latin Times

D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai and Ray Mendoza Break Down the Brutal Truth Behind Their Movie 'Warfare'

The film, released by A24, reconstructs a 2006 mission in Ramadi, Iraq, in meticulous detail. Ray Mendoza, part of the SEAL team in the story, and D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, the actor who plays him, tell how it all went down.

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How to watch Warfare

A24, Alex Garland war movie is now playing, here’s how to watch Warfare.

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Reason

Alex Garland's Warfare Refuses To Soften the Blow of Combat

A Civil War follow up that depicts the bleak, meaningless, moment-to-moment terror of modern war.

The Independent UK

‘Civil War’ filmmaker and a former SEAL built a new kind of combat movie in ‘Warfare’

Filmmaker Alex Garland has teamed up with former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza to make a new kind of war film

The Times of India

'Warfare' star Joseph Quinn says film is 'raw, real, and without exposition'

Joseph Quinn has a lot going on for him on the professional front. The actor will soon take flight as the superhero Johnny Storm. However, before he suits up for 'Fantastic Four: First Steps', fans will get to watch him in action on the battlefield in Warfare. Directed by Iraq…

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Will Poulter's Warfare role 'was more objective'

Will Poulter has discussed his experience of filming 'Warfare', the Ray Mendoza-directed war movie.

Evening Standard

Will Poulter says there are ‘few truly anti-war films’

Speaking at a special screening of the film Warfare, the 32-year old described the film as dealing with the ‘consequences’ of war.

The Independent UK

Actor Noah Centineo speaks out on cancelation of The Recruit on Netflix: ‘It is what it is’

Netflix announced the cancelation of the CIA drama weeks after its season two premiere

Evening Standard

Warfare review: visceral real-time war film puts you in the thick of hell

4/5 This film by Alex Garland and ex-Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza is a technical triumph with visceral performances... just don’t expect politics

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