In 2024, Alex Garland smashed A24's worldwide box office record with the unflinching dystopian action movie Civil War. Now, a year on, Garland's battlefield is back, only this time it's even more realistic. Co-written and co-directed by Garland with real-life veteran Navy Seal Ray Mendoza, the first responses to the newest effort are in and are positively glowing. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Warfare has shot straight to success, earning a huge 91% approval rating from critics already, with that number expected to possibly climb within the coming days.

For Garland, a 91% critical score marks the second-best of his entire career, only missing out on 2014's Ex-Machina by 1%. This includes bettering the scores of the likes of 28 Days Later and its sequel 28 Weeks Later, the 2007 sci-fi hit Sunshine, 2018's Annihilation, and the aforementioned record-breaker, Civil War. This is no one-person project, though, with Warfare boasting a superb cast that...