The Yellow Birds doesn't say much of anything outside of the mundane. The trio of young men at its center are compelling enough, but the entire ordeal feels like a mash-up of countless other movies.

As "war is hell" movies go, this one is better than usual.

A rather dispiriting slog of a movie.

Yellow Birds ends up being all too nonjudgmental and restricts itself for the most part to little more than immediate emotional realities.