Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Lindholm sembra aver imparato perfettamente la grande lezione di Francesco Rosi, capace di non tradire mai le proprie intenzioni, restituendo la complessità politica e morale della realtà.
- David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: With its moral dilemma of a fulcrum and its motif of a marriage tested by the duty and distance of a soldiering husband, Tobias Lindholm’s A War bears all the markings of a topical, made-for-television melodrama. Yet with his lean, deliberate narrative and aesthetic choices, Lindholm has stripped the story down to its most powerful essence.
- Josh Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: A drama that raises ethically telling questions about war, conscience, compassion, and heroism.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Without judgement, we’re shown how rules of engagement, both followed and broken, can lead to the loss of innocent lives.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: The problems of A War are primarily ones of in the way [Tobias Lindholm] frames this situation.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Courtney Howard @ FreshFiction.tv
- Excerpt: While this is extremely universal in its message, it’s very much a re-tread of topics covered at great length in previous films.
- Ron Wilkinson @ Its Just Movies
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