5 min readIF THE NEW movie Warfare gives you a sense of déjà vu, you’re not alone. The hyperrealist A24 war drama, depicting events from the Iraq War, comes from writer and director Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation), who just last year delivered Civil War, a jittery if opaque imagining of a future conflict-torn America.
But Warfare is a very different beast. Not only because Garland is working with a co-writer and co-director, Ray Mendoza, but because the film is based on a very real firefight that Mendoza experienced as a Navy…