During the Iraq war, a team of Navy Seal snipers encounters unexpected urban resistance, requiring the members to use all their skills and technology to get to safety.

This is not your usual war movie, but a forensic recreation of an actual incident. Co-directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza have pieced together a script (but not a story) from the memories of the combatants. It gets points for being as true a depiction of visceral, boots-on-the-ground battle as has ever been filmed, including the unbearably tense periods waiting for something to happen. It’s a percussive, emotionally harrowing and immersive sensory experience that evokes the dread of a horror movie, difficult to watch but impossible to forget.

But for all its accuracy, it loses points for its likely intentional lack of character development and for not really having anything new to say about wars or the politicians who start them. (95 min)