Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland's 'Warfare' recreates a mission in Ramadi gone wrong hits with visceral and personal details.

In discarding Hollywood tropes in favor of truth, the makers of "Warfare" have crafted one of the most viscerally powerful stories about combat ever filmed. Co-written and co-directed by Alex Garland ("Civil War,

The legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami once wryly remarked that he prefers "the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater." Frequently taken out of context, Kiarostami's statement was part of a larger rant against what he saw as a certain scourge in Western filmmaking,