The film revolves around a mostly high ... of war." But liberal Hollywood did not respond so well. Famous critic Roger Ebert seethed in his review at the time: "I think this movie is corrupt ...

Hollywood movies are sometimes born out of pure imagination, while others are true stories about real people. There have been many war movies made ... and earned numerous high military honors ...

You could expand this dictum to most Hollywood war movies; however they feel about war, their main goal is often to imagine, and experience, war as a uniquely American trauma. Alex Garland’s ...