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War Machine
An idiosyncratic general confronts opposition from enemies, allies, and bureaucrats while leading a massive rebuild operation in Afghanistan.
July1977, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, UK
1 July 1956, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
April1952, England, UK
3 April 1946, London, England, UK
6 February 1977, Diana, West Virginia, USA
11 May 1977
5 September 1992, West Sussex, England, UK
28 January 1993, England, UK
May 26, 2017
An uneven satire boosted by a larger-than-life performance from Brad Pitt.May 26, 2017
Brad Pitt stars as the deluded but determined four-star US army general Glen McMahon in this satire on the late days of the war in Afghanistan.May 25, 2017
No actor plays dimwits quite like Brad Pitt. And they aren't just regular old dimwits: They're the sort of bafflingly idiotic, all-star dimwits you couldn't picture using a spoon properly, let alone solving that pesky Middle East crisis.May 28, 2017
War Machine is a good film but not a great one, hamstrung by too many ideas and too little focusMay 26, 2017
I wouldn't be surprised if some observers say Pitt made huge miscalculations in his acting choices with the result being the worst performance of his career - but I found it to be a brazenly effective piece of work, well-suited to the material.May 29, 2017
A confused comedy that wastes the promise of its premise. And Brad Pitt's performance, sadly, belongs in a different film entirely.May 26, 2017
It's broad (sometimes cartoonishly so) and a bit all over the place, but it still manages to occasionally sting and leave a welt.May 26, 2017
A muddled satire about the war in Afghanistan awkwardly forced to camouflage its lead character behind a pseudonym.May 26, 2017
Perhaps it's a case of honoring the literary source material too much, as War Machine fundamentally fails as compelling cinema. It's not smart enough to be a think piece and not visceral enough to evoke anger.May 26, 2017
A film that veers wildly from war movie to character drama to satire to history piece to a blended gray of nothing.May 25, 2017
Pitt's oddly jokey performance as General Glen McMahon tends to overwhelm everything going on around him. That's too bad, because this anti-war satire has barbs a'plenty for pride, ignorance and the American can-do spirit.May 26, 2017
Brad Pitt pushes the role of a rogue general too far into caricature and defangs the film by forgetting that world leaders and policy wonks don't mean a thing if they're not flesh and blood.