25. "Fury" (2014)

Set amid the waning days of the European war, the Brad Pitt-helmed “Fury” (2014) is an intense and violent 21st-Century World War II movie. Rife with technical accuracy and unflinching hatred for the enemy, “Fury” drags the WWII movie into the post-“Saving Private Ryan” era… Asides include how entertainment journalism is more like advertising than journalism, and the thorny issue of ‘consent’ vis-à-vis a conquering army and local women.