Review of This Is Not a War Story

I think this would have been stronger had it chosen one format, instead of embedding a fictional story inside of a documentary. This made it mentally a bit challenging to navigate. Ultimately, I felt like the fictional component was awkward and tried to do too much with too little space. It gave short shrift to the story of Danny Ramirez's character and his relationship to Will, and the semi-awkward connection between Will and Isabelle focused almost exclusively on Isabelle.

That said, Danny Ramirez's acting was stellar.