Recent war films are more like psychological thriller/horror survival films. I approve of this. Even for the Victor war should not be a gaudy thing.

Films like Dunkirk, the German release of All Quiet on the Western Front and even Hollywood’s Fury still show courage, valor and decency but the same time in the face of a much more plausible horror, life under the constant threat of death, enormity of the cost of war.

Happily gone are the ridiculous jingoistic cowboy war films like Pearl Harbor, Midway and their like.
In my opinion, if a war film doesn’t fill you with dread, or disgust at the wastefulness of it - it has failed.