War Game

Name: War Game
Genre: Thriller, Documentary
Released: August 2, 2024
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 71

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Submarine Deluxe | Release Date: August 2, 2024 | Not Rated

Summary: A bipartisan group of US defense, intelligence, and elected policymakers spanning five presidential administrations participate in an unscripted role-play exercise. Portraying a fictional President of the United States and his advisors, they confront a political coup backed by rogue members of the US military in the wake of a contested 2024A bipartisan group of US defense, intelligence, and elected policymakers spanning five presidential administrations participate in an unscripted role-play exercise. Portraying a fictional President of the United States and his advisors, they confront a political coup backed by rogue members of the US military in the wake of a contested 2024 presidential election. Like actors in a thriller, but with profound real-world stakes, the players have only six hours to save American democracy.… Expand

Director: Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber

Genre(s): Thriller, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 94 min

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Perry Norton

Aug 7, 2024

This film is a fascinating and dynamic investigation of American politics. It does more with the documentary form than I thought possible. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nell Minow

Aug 1, 2024

All of the participants have broad and deep experience, and it's fascinating to see them work through their options. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Aug 1, 2024

The first time I saw War Game, it shook me up; the second time, my visceral response was tempered by a skepticism about power that the movie doesn’t invite. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Aug 2, 2024

However stilted War Game may feel cinematically, it registers with full force as a realistic depiction of a nightmarish scenario that could easily occur just a few months from now. Read full review

David Fear

Aug 2, 2024

War Game concentrates a lot on the “how to” part. But it also says a lot about how eerily easy and how horrifyingly relatable the “why” of it all is. Read full review

Natalia Keogan

Aug 5, 2024

While the domestic crisis that unfolds is purely hypothetical, the scenarios and potential solutions are supposed to hew closely to what would occur in real life. Read full review

Chris Barsanti

Jul 30, 2024

By setting up such a potentially cataclysmic scenario and not convincingly illustrating how it could be resolved or stopped from occurring in the first place, War Game undercuts the very reason it was made. Read full review

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