Warfare Reviews Give Alex Garland A24 Movie a Fresh Rotten Tomatoes Score

Warfare reviews are officially beginning to come in, with A24‘s latest war action movie earning positive reviews.

What are the Warfare reviews saying?

Over on Rotten Tomatoes, the film debuted with an extremely high 93% score, with 28 reviews currently published as of now. The Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland-directed project is described as an action movie, but Empire Magazine’s Alex Godfrey finds it to be just as effective an anti-war movie.

“War is hell, and Warfare refuses to shy away from it. Free of the operatics of most supposed anti-war films, it’s all the more effective for its simplicity. It is respectfully gruelling,” says Godfrey in his review.

IndieWire’s David Ehrlich also touches on the warning that Warfare may be trying to instill, noting that the film “wants to be felt more than interpreted, but it doesn’t make any sense to me as an invitation — only as a warning created from the wounds of a memory.”

Chicago Reader’s Kyle Logan also touched on the hyperrealism of the film, saying that “there is no doubt that Warfare is, to this civilian’s eyes and rattled ears, the most effective any film has been at not only communicating but sharing the mental state of soldiers in warfare.”

Warfare is set to release in theaters on April 11, 2025.

Warfare stars Will Poulter, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Cosmo Jarvis, Joseph Quinn, Charles Melton, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett, Taylor John Smith, Michael Gandolfini, and more. Woon-A-Tai will be portraying Mendoza in the film.

Prior to Civil War, which is now streaming on Max, Garland directed 2014’s Ex Machina, 2018’s Annihilation, and 2022’s Men, all of which were released through A24. He was also an uncredited director on 2012’s Dredd and worked on the screenplays for 2002’s 28 Days Later, 2007’s Sunshine, and 2010’s Neve Let Me Go.

Additionally, Garland wrote the screenplay for Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later, which hits theaters on June 20, 2025. He is also the writer of the 28 Years Later sequel, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, which is set to release on January 16, 2026.

“Written and directed by Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland (Civil War, 28 Days Later), Warfare embeds audiences with a platoon of American Navy SEALs in the home of an Iraqi family, overwatching the movement of US forces through insurgent territory. A visceral, boots-on-the-ground story of modern warfare, told like never before: in real time and based on the memory of the people who lived it,” says the synopsis.