Critic Reviews for War Dogs on Moviebuff.com

You can see the great movie inside War Dogs, but for now we’ll have to settle for merely a very good one

Alan Cerny, ComingSoon.net

War Dogs is that rare contemporary comedy that knows how to make a laugh stick in your throat

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

This is a smart, intelligent and darkly funny movie in every respect and a big leap forward for Phillips

Pete Hammond, Deadline

A straightforward, un-ironic buddy flick about badass dudes doing badass things

Matt Zoller Seitz, Roger Ebert

It’s a light-hearted comedy that makes good use of classic guy material

Rachit Gupta, Filmfare

The film tells the true story of twentysomething scumbags and manages to make you care

Rick Kisonak, Seven Days

War Dogs draws favorable comparisons to The Big Short

Matt Singer, ScreenCrush

“War Dogs” is being marketed as a comedy, and it’s hard to argue with that

Bob Garver, High Country Press

It’s an unconventional crime narrative told with biting humor and a flippant attitude that ironically make its critiques even more devastating

Matt Goldberg, Collider

Giddy, spinning life-as-a-con-job psychodramas that show you how fraud really works, and that celebrate it, too

Owen Gleiberman, Variety

The pessimism feels unearned in a film that never firmly decides where its sympathies lie

New Orleans Los Angeles News Source, New Orleans Los Angeles News

A fantastic tale neatly packaged into a compelling drama, and a tremendous showcase for two great stars

Eric Eisenberg, Cinema Blend

War Dogs emerges from a similar dark place but its howl from the abyss is muted by the film’s distrust in its own material

Jordan Hoffman, The Guardian

Comic timing is masterful, established by Jeff Groth’s superb editing, Todd Philips’ direction, and Teller and Hill’s acting, the serious parts merging seamlessly into the mirthful story

Harvey Karten, Shockya.com

There's a generous dose of fiction thrown in but for the most part, War Dogs serves up some pretty kick ass entertainment

Reagan Gavin Rasquinha, The Times of India

War Dogs never manages to live up to the absurdity it promises, nor paints a full picture of the two characters at its center

Josh Lasser, IGN

“War Dogs” was basically made to be forgotten and unless you are lucky enough to see it with the outspoken mystery men, don’t waste your time

Mike Sullivan, The Weekender

War Dogs is a straightforward crime drama, with an intriguingly grey sense of morality at its core

Chris Bumbray, JoBlo.com

War Dogs is watchable and manages a handful of laughs along the way

Rob Hunter, Film School Rejects

Todd Phillips does it again, and delivers a film which relieves you from your worries with a content which makes you laugh hard

Cinema Glitz Source, Cinema Glitz

We laugh at it so we don’t cry

FlickFilosopher Source, FlickFilosopher.com

It's an absolutely insane story of the ambition, delusion and megalomania

Lindsay Bahr, Yahoo News

Even though you wish it were a more incisive cut into the topic that a giant gnarly bite, it’s a fairly entertaining watch.

Mihir Fadnavis, First Post

War Dogs will certainly hold your attention all the way through

Shreevatsa Nevatia, Film Companion

War Dogs tells a story of trust and greed, less colorful and incriminating than what really happened

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club

War Dogs reminded me of quite a few films that were far more successful at doing what it tries to do

Sudhir Srinivasan, The Hindu

Watch War Dogs for a reality check on how war has lost its significance and has now become a business for every opportunist

Sai Gamare, BookMyShow

Director Todd Phillips doesn't give us anything out of the ordinary

Joanne Soh, The New Paper

It’s typical of the muddled moral perspective here that he is probably the most appealing character in the movie

Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent

The film is a canny hybrid of pothead comedy, buddy-movie action and heady drama

Nathan Poppe, News Ok