World War II movies

Pressure (2026) Review: How a Weather Forecast Decided D-Day

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Verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. The most gripping war film of 2026 contains almost no warfare at all. Pressure, Anthony Maras’s account of the 72 hours before D-Day, turns a room full of meteorologists into a pressure cooker — and then asks one man, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, to gamble 150,000 lives on a … Read more

The Mosquito Bowl Review: Peter Berg’s War Epic Is Powerful but Uneven

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Verdict: 3 out of 5 stars. Peter Berg’s The Mosquito Bowl is a war film of two halves that never quite become one movie. Its battle sequences are visceral, technically superb and genuinely harrowing. Its human drama, for long stretches, is thinner than the true story deserves. The result is a film that is easy … Read more