Brad Pitt’s new military movie is at war with itself

Sara Stewart
Thu, 25 May 2017 12:05:54 -0400

The new Netflix movie “War Machine” is half dark, deliciously topical political satire and half somber portrait of a flailing counterinsurgency effort. The two don’t mesh well, and given the number of modern war movies already out there, it should have stuck with the former — a glibly narrated commentary on the foibles of Gen....