8 Underrated War Movies You Need to Watch This Week. Your Watchlist Has Been Lying to You.

Fury has 621,265 IMDb votes. Das Boot has 291,176. Something is broken. Here are eight war movies the crowd keeps skipping, counted down.

The last one has half a million votes and still gets shortchanged.

1. 8
   The Great Dictator (1940)9.2

   Chaplin roasted a dictator to his face in 1940.

   9.2 on movie.guru, and audiences beat 98% of movies. The weakness: the slapstick runs a beat long before the big speech. The speech makes up for it.
2. 7
   The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)9.5

   David Lean made a reported $2.8M look like an empire.

   9.5 movie.guru, $27.2M worldwide. Alec Guinness plays pride like a slow fuse. Yes, the first hour marches. That's the point.
3. 6
   All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)8.9

   The best war movie of the 2020s so far. In German.

   8.9 movie.guru, 90% on Rotten Tomatoes, a reported $20M budget that looks triple. Metacritic's 76 says some critics found it relentless. Relentless is the job.
4. 5
   The Deer Hunter (1978)9.3

   The wedding is long. You need every minute of it.

   9.3 movie.guru, Meryl Streep and John Cazale in support, $49M worldwide on a reported $15M. Patience required. Payoff guaranteed.
5. 4
   Incendies (2010)9.1

   Denis Villeneuve's best movie, and almost nobody has seen it.

   9.1 movie.guru, just $6.8M worldwide on a reported $6.5M budget. Go in knowing nothing. Seriously, close the trailer tab.
6. 3
   Paths of Glory (1957)9.6

   Kubrick's sharpest movie is the one nobody quotes.

   9.6 movie.guru, Metacritic 90, and the fewest IMDb votes on this list at 243,404. Kirk Douglas versus the brass, and the brass deserve every second of it.
7. 2
   Das Boot (1981)9.6

   The most claustrophobic movie ever made. Not close.

   9.6 movie.guru, 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. Jürgen Prochnow says more with one stare than most scripts manage. Fewer IMDb votes than Fury. Explain that.
8. 1
   The Hurt Locker (2008)9.1

   IMDb's 7.5 for The Hurt Locker is a crime.

   Metacritic 95, critics beat 97% of movies, audiences only 85%. The shaky cam is a lot. Jeremy Renner on a bomb is still tenser than most blockbusters.

$83.47 says the comments fight about #1 before a single person presses play on #3.

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