HACKSAW RIDGE is the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss [Andrew Garfield] who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle ...

War films have been a major draw for some of the biggest filmmakers of all time, and many of them became major masterpieces with huge impact. One of them comes from Mel Gibson, 2016's Hacksaw Ridge.

Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge, which premiered today at the 73rd International Venice Film Festival, is a brutally effective, bristlingly idiosyncratic combat saga — the true story of a man of peace ...

The 21st time was the charm for legendary sound mixer Kevin O’Connell at the Oscars. He won his first Academy Award — after 20 previous losses — for his work on Mel Gibson’s WWII drama “Hacksaw Ridge.

April 5, 1945. Rain lashed the Maeda Escarpment. Forty-foot waterfalls carved into jagged limestone cliffs. The 77th Infantry Division of the US Army clung to ropes and ladders, trying to survive ...

NPR movie critic Bob Mondello reviews Hacksaw Ridge, a film about a World War II hero who changed American attitudes about conscientious objectors. Mel Gibson's last directing project was the human ...

Can art be a form of atonement? That seems to be the case Mel Gibson is trying to make. After a ten-year absence from directing — his last run at the helm in Apocalypto arrived between a drunk driving ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

It was one of the most hellish battles of the second world war, and Desmond Doss went into it without a gun. Mel Gibson’s film tells the story of Doss’s remarkable role in the Battle of Okinawa, where ...

Mel Gibson’s new film raises questions about religious liberty and moral conviction amidst national turmoil. Hacksaw Ridge, Gibson’s first directorial outing since 2006’s Apocalypto, should expedite ...