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30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranWar Machine is the first of Australian filmmaker Michod's three films...to have a dominant sense of humor. What unites it with its predecessors is Michod's fierce intelligence and formidable directing skill.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe film's scabrous, sometimes arch, other times spot-on critique ultimately comes together in an effective finale that retroactively puts a better light on the entire film than might have seemed possible during some of the earlier, rougher moments.
- 50Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonThis satire boasts plenty of ideas but is only occasionally compelling.
- 50Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenWriter-director David Michôd's film renders existential crises of American entitlement dull and tedious.
- 50The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThis is the most bizarre lead performance of Pitt’s career, as he plays McMahon as a stroke victim doing the world’s worst impression of George Clooney.
- 40The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawNot funny enough to be satire, not realistic enough to count as political commentary, not exciting enough to work as a war movie, David Michôd’s supposedly Helleresque romp, released on Netflix, is an imperfect non-storm of unsuccess.
- 35TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeWhat’s most dispiriting about War Machine is that you can sense the satire it wants to be — and could have been — but never becomes.
- 30VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeEveryone has a different idea of what’s funny, but it’s hard to imagine anyone being amused by War Machine, a colossally miscalculated satire.
- 25The PlaylistRodrigo PerezThe PlaylistRodrigo PerezWith no plot to speak of, a baggy tangent across Europe in the mid-section, and no forward momentum, War Machine soon descends into the quicksand of its own design and never recovers. From there it’s an enervating slog of two hours that invites sleep.