Topic: war movies

Taylor John Smith, Charles Melton and Alex Brockdorff in "Warfare" (Murray Close/A24)

An apolitical war film is impossible

Coleman Spilde
Alan Rickman in "Eye in the Sky" (Bleecker Street)

Anatomy of a drone strike

Andrew O'Hehir
Jack O'Connell in "'71" (Roadside Attractions)

A gritty Belfast war thriller

Andrew O'Hehir
Bradley Cooper in "American Sniper," Peter Sellers in "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"

"Sniper's" chicken-hawk fans

Kyle Schmidlin
Bradley Cooper in "American Sniper" (Warner Bros. Entertainment)

"Sniper" and the ghost of Iraq

Andrew O'Hehir
Bradley Cooper in "American Sniper" (Warner Bros. Entertainment)

The war over "American Sniper"

Andrew O'Hehir
Brad Pitt in "Fury" (Sony Pictures)

Making WWII macho again

Andrew O'Hehir

A national myth for Putin

Andrew O'Hehir