Deserves every bit of adoration it gets

Rating: 10/10 (26 January 2020)

Never seen a film so quickly establish memorable characters so well. The two main characters have believable chemistry and at no point are you broken by a weird delivery or bad writing. The former being notably impressive as the entire film is edited as a single shot. There is only one visible cut in the entire movie. If you've seen Birdman then you know what to expect.
Sam Mendes seems to be pretty contempt being one of my favourite directors of all time as he's done nothing to jeopardise that position (excluding Spectre which was probably his biggest misstep thus far) the way he structures a scene makes it feel alive and entirely like a real war zone. The sheer quantity of real extras is used to great effect to make achieve the aforementioned effect. There are hundreds of extras in one of the final scenes and that shot alone probably earned Mendes his Golden Globe and likely the Oscar I can confidently say he's going to be nominated for.
I'd say it's a definite favorite of mine and should be seen by any fan of cinema.