Director Sam Mendes' Jarhead underperformed at the box office, but it remains memorable for Roger Deakins' striking cinematography.

Whatever else you may want to say about the film version of Anthony Swofford's Gulf War memoir, "Jarhead," it certainly makes for an unusual war movie -- maybe the only one in which the hero sees ...

“Every war is different. Every war is the same,” Marine sniper Anthony “Swoff” Swoffer narrates in “Jarhead.” So too, is every war movie. “Jarhead,” based on Swofford’s memoir of the first Gulf War, ...