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‘The Brink of War’ Review: Reagan and Gorbachev Engage in Unengaging Verbal Battle

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‘The Brink of War’ Review: Reagan and Gorbachev Engage in Unengaging Verbal Battle
Aug 11, 2026 6:00pm PT ‘The Brink of War’ Review: Reagan and Gorbachev Engage in Unengaging Verbal Battle

Jeff Daniels and Jared Harris play the world leaders going head-to-head at the 1986 Reykjavik Summit in this earnest, slightly waxworks-y historical drama from Angel Studios.

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Guy Lodge

Film Critic

@guylodge See All The Brink of War Courtesy of Angel Studios

There was a time when talky slabs of recent political history like “The Brink of War,” carried by skilled name actors who aren’t quite stars, were largely the preserve of Emmy-chasing TV networks. Today, with a bit of added Christian-right rhetoric, they’re ready for the big screen, as the growing faith-based film industry expands its palette in terms of subject matter — but not cinematic style, as evidenced by this dutifully drab gray-flannel enterprise from writer-director Michael Russell Gunn.

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