It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.

[3] After promising 1,100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a French factory that has been bought by Germans, decide to suddenly shut down the plant.

Laurent, a worker at the factory, takes the lead in a fight against this decision.

The website's critical consensus reads: "At War doesn't have the answers to the struggles it highlights, but proves no less compelling in the raw urgency with which it depicts the modern worker's plight.

"[4] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 61 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".