Guy Ritchie's The Covenant - Movie Reviews (2024)

...a stirring action picture that grows more and more absorbing as it unfolds...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 23, 2024

A riveting war story that reveals the bonds that build between soldiers and interpreters

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 20, 2023

In telling a specific story of wartime camaraderie, the film offers good fodder for discussions of grace, guilt, and the gospel.

Full Review | Sep 14, 2023

It is a tight drama that looks at the war in Afghanistan in 2018 and its aftermath that works on multiple levels and is so finely written that it flows from beginning to end.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Aug 9, 2023

In a film that is supposed to focus on the tragedy of Afghan civilians during and after the war, it is at least disconcerting that the point of view is that of Sergeant Kinley... [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 26, 2023

I am really frustrated by this one even as a massive fan of Guy Ritchies...

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jul 22, 2023

The Covenant keeps the attention on the bond and relationship between the two men, and portrays it as a show of humanity amidst the barbaric. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 20, 2023

With the men's dynamic and their few words, The Covenant could've been a Western (and in a certain way it is). [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 11, 2023

The Covenant is also known under its official title Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, although I suppose a more accurate moniker might be Guy Ritchie’s The Killing Fields.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 27, 2023

Ritchie did not have to put his name in the title of the strongest, most impressive film of his career. It’s a defining showcase that liberates him from his genre. It is Gyllenhaal’s most assured role. A highly realistic war film.

Full Review | Jun 25, 2023

... uses the real-world experiences of many as inspiration for a dramatic wartime tale in which the bonds forged in battle cannot be undone, no matter time and distance.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 20, 2023

Gyllenhaal is good as the intense American sergeant...

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 16, 2023

The Covenant is a disciplined and effective war movie with a real point to make about the civilian workers who were left behind.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2023

…as entertaining and exciting as it is thought provoking.

Full Review | Original Score: 17/20 | Jun 14, 2023

[Gyllenhaal 's] energy is perfect for the relatively sober-minded The Covenant — and allows space for Dar Salim to shine, in a more substantial lead than the majority of his Hollywood roles have afforded him so far.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2023

…the film’s second half, largely focused Killing Fields-style on Kinney’s attempts to rescue Ahmed, is the exact opposite of the casual betrayal which took place in real life…

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 3, 2023

Though the movie is fictional, the uncertain fate of thousands of real Afghan interpreters after the hurried 2021 US withdrawal gives it genuine heft.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 2, 2023

Guy Ritchie's strategically shameful action thriller points an accusatory finger at broken covenants (promises) made to loyal Afghan interpreters/translators by the U.S. Government, leaving them stranded as prime targets for Taliban reprisals.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | May 23, 2023

These set pieces are extraordinarily well done, brutal, and eye-opening to everyday dangers. Still, the final act would have worked better if it dealt with Ahmed's struggle to survive rather than Kinley's guilt and depression.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | May 23, 2023

The serious melodrama falters when it becomes little more than an action movie devoid of the melodrama.

Full Review | Original Score: C | May 23, 2023