Top 10 Movies: War
The highest-graded war movies we have reviewed, best first.
Inglourious BasterdsFive chapters of weaponized conversation, and the best opening scene of its century.Read the review
Saving Private RyanThe Omaha Beach landing rewrote combat filmmaking; the sentimental frame around it is the weaker part.
Schindler's ListSpielberg strips away every trick he owns and lets the ledger, the faces and the ash do the work.
The GeneralThe greatest chase of the silent era, staged with real locomotives on real track, and Keaton never lets the scale swallow the joke.
Apocalypse NowThe most beautiful film ever made about a story it never quite figures out how to finish.
Paths of GloryEighty eight minutes of the coldest anger ever aimed at command, and not a wasted frame.
CasablancaA studio assembly line accidentally produced the most quotable screenplay in American film.
DownfallBruno Ganz gives the definitive screen Hitler, trembling and raging in a bunker, in a film that watches the collapse with forensic calm.
The PianistPolanski films the destruction of Warsaw through the window of a man who survives mostly by luck, and refuses to make him a hero.
Full Metal JacketParris Island is perfect and Vietnam is merely very good, which is the film's whole problem.
