American Sniper

Starring Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller, American Sniper is based off the book of the same name by SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, and chronicles his life. Clint Eastwood does a superb job in directing the adaptation and Bradley Cooper is superb in his acting transformation.  More importantly than just a war story, the film brings light to the current generation of veterans wrestling with the trauma of war and trying to navigating integrating into the civilian world. The film shows a man consumed by war at each passing tour of duty and the irony of how that consumption ended his life.  It's a straightforward non-preachy movie on the guise of a story of a hero, but within it is a cautionary tale with implications far reaching in our society.  It is to Eastwood's credit as a director, that he does a great job of just letting the story unfold in that manner.