One year after the release of Civil War, director Alex Garland is back with another A24 war movie, Warfare, opening in movie theaters this weekend. And this time, the war is real.
Co-directed and co-written by Garland and Ray Mendoza, Warfare is based on Mendoza’s real-life experience as a U.S. Navy Seal who fought in the Iraq War. The entire movie is a real-time rendition of one platoon on a single mission in November 2006, during the final stages of the second battle of Ramadi, a battle that led to the deaths of over 80 U.S. soldiers, and wounded hundreds more. The large ensemble cast includes D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai as Mendoza, as well as other platoon members played by Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Joseph Quinn, Kit Connor, Finn Bennett, Taylor John Smith, Michael Gandolfini, Adain Bradley, Noah Centineo, Evan Holtzman, Henry Zaga, and Charles Melton.
Reviews of Warfare have been positive so far. If you want to see the film for yourself, read on for all the information on where to watch the A24 Warfare movie, and when we expect to see Warfare streaming on Max.
Warfare will only available to watch in a movie theater, when it opens in the U.S. in theaters on Friday, April 11. (The movie opens in U.K. theaters on Friday, April 18.) You can find a showing near you via Fandango. The Warfare movie is not yet available to watch online or on streaming.
Warfare is not streaming on Netflix and likely will not be on Netflix in the U.S. any time soon, due to the fact that the film is an A24 release, and the 2023 deal between A24 and Warner Bros. Discovery, brings all A24’s previous and upcoming theatrical releases to the Warner Bros. streaming service Max. (Formerly known as HBO Max.) If you want to watch the Warfare movie at home, you’ll have to wait for the film to be available to buy or rent on digital platforms, or wait for it to stream on Max.
Warfare is not yet streaming on Max. Right now, the movie is only in theaters. That said, we do expect to see Warfare streaming on Max eventually—thanks to the A24 and Warner Bros. deal—but we’re not sure when.
The A24 deal is a “Pay-1 deal,” which means A24 movies will start streaming on Max in the “Pay 1 window,” meaning that Max will be the first “TV channel” to pay for the rights toWarfare, after the film has been released on digital and home media. One recent A24 title, Babygirl, will begin streaming on Max on April 25, about four months after its release in theaters, and about three months after its release on digital.
If Warfare follows a similar release strategy, you might see Warfare on digital in about a month, around mid-May 2025, and streaming on Max in about four months, around mid-August 2025.
This is all speculation. The A24 digital and streaming releases have varied by title. If you want to watch Warfare right away, you can catch the movie in U.S. theaters on Friday, and in U.K. theaters next week.