The Damned

Name: The Damned
Genre: Drama, History
Released: May 16, 2025
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 71

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Grasshopper Film | Release Date: May 16, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: Winter 1862. In the midst of the Civil War, the US Army sends a company of volunteer soldiers to the western territories, with the task of patrolling the unchartered borderlands. As their mission ultimately changes course, the meaning behind their engagement begins to elude them.

Genre(s): Drama, History

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 89 min

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Jeannette Catsoulis

May 15, 2025

The Damned is shaped as a wistful and laconic study of the minutiae of survival. Though billed as his first fiction film, it wobbles tantalizingly on a permeable line between narrative and documentary. Read full review

Kyle Smith

May 15, 2025

It’s a film about tableaus and texture that strives, largely successfully, to re-create the experience of being an extremely small part of a vast, historic conflagration. In effect, it’s an anti-spaghetti western, eschewing all things grandiose and bold-faced in favor of the small and prosaic. Read full review

Tim Grierson

Jun 19, 2025

Don’t think of The Damned as an antiwar film — consider it an origin story for Minervini’s perceptive, understated exploration of an America still in conflict. Read full review

Peter Debruge

May 19, 2024

The Damned has a tendency to meander, but in so doing, it strives toward something authentic. Read full review

Zach Lewis

Sep 7, 2024

Roberto Minervini’s camera ably conjures the melancholy and alienation that afflict his characters across scenes that merge documentary and neorealist techniques, but it’s far from realistic to expect a troop of soldiers to act aloof around each other when they’re all in the shit. Read full review

Wendy Ide

May 19, 2024

At times the film feels almost subversive in its resolute lack of dramatic tension. And yet, as a melancholy mood piece, there’s a haunting quality to this handsomely filmed account of the slow attrition of faith, hope and purpose. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

May 19, 2024

Tellingly, The Damned only threatens to become anything more than a ponderous — if immaculately convincing — Civil War reenactment when Minervini allows his characters to articulate their fading dreams of salvation in the clearest possible terms. Read full review

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