20 Best War Movies Released Since 2000
1. The Zone of Interest (2023)
The finest war movie released since 2000 also happens to be one of the century's most unshakable horrors.
Directed by Jonathan Glazer, The Zone of Interest follows the personal lives of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Hoss (Christian Friedel) and his wife Hedwig (Sandra Huller), who live in an idyllic home next to the infamous death camp.
A pulverising, sickening odyssey into the banality of evil, Glazer's masterpiece offers a horrifically timely treatise on how ordinary, everyday people can find themselves complicit in the worst of atrocities, whether they want any part in them or not.
Brought together by revolting imagery, unsettling sound, and two towering performances - Friedel and Huller working disturbing wonders to probe the minds of terrible people who wanted to live normal lives - The Zone of Interest is a disquieting and necessary glimpse into how the only thing necessary for evil to triumph, is for people witnessing it to do nothing.