Sienna Miller and Dominic West's 'slick' divorce drama War is hailed as a 'rip-roaring battle of the sexes' in a series of glowing reviews

Sienna Miller and Dominic West's new show War has won unanimous praise from critics after hitting screens last week. The eight-part Sky divorce drama has been branded 'slick' and a 'rip-roaring battle of the sexes' and won four stars from a host of publications. War follows the story of Sienna's character Carla, a Hollywood A-lister, using underhand tactics to divorce her plilandering tech billionaire Morgan, played by Dominic West, while he attempts to keep hold of his assets. The backbone of the story is their respective law firms and the lengths they will go to ensure their clients get what they believe they are owed. The Guardian's Lucy Mangan branded the show 'glorious delectation' and enthused: 'This brilliant piece of balderdash – packed with money, class warfare, sex and dastardly lawyers – is the perfect antidote to life right now. We need this!'Praising Dominic, Phil Harrison wrote for Independent: 'Dominic West co-stars in vicious legal series that skewers the wealthy and has a lot of fun in the process'. Sienna Miller and Dominic West's new show War has won unanimous praise from critics after hitting screens last week WAR: The Reviews INDEPENDENT Rating:FOUR STARS This is a trivial but pleasurable thing, without any real heroes but finally, not without humanity. One of the tiny consolations of living in a world containing multibillionaires is the chance to scoff, with a clear conscience, at their haplessness. As such War is an expertly assembled, victimless pleasure. METRO Rating:FOUR STARS War is savage TV, a story reeking of ruthlessness that’s hidden behind a perfectly polished facade of courtesy and formality. To summarise in more straightforward terms – I loved it, and could lap up many more seasons. The only shortfall for me was the slightly anticlimactic end, but I still found it a fantastic watch. THE GUARDIAN Rating:FOUR STARS War … what is it good for? At last, we have an answer: delivering eight hours of high-quality balderdash direct to your TV screens for your glorious delectation. Hurrah!... It’s massive, massive fun, with a ripped-from-the-headlines feel to it that only adds to the entertainment. Oh, the back-stabbing! Oh, the double-crossings! Oh, the last-minute aversions of disaster! Until the next one! DAILY MAIL Rating:FOUR STARS That's all we require for a red-blooded, rip-roaring battle of the sexes. But the opening episode of War does too much due diligence with its back-story, introducing an ambitious would-be lawyer called Johnny (Archie Renaux) from Peckham, with a Del Boy accent and the brass neck to match.VARIETY Thoroughly captivating — with [George] Kay’s signature twists dispersed throughout — War depicts the lengths people are willing to go to achieve victory and what it might cost to get there... As with the rest of Kay’s dramas, War builds tension brilliantly and unfolds into something far more intricate than it first appears. The New York Times said Sienna delivers a ‘deeply charismatic, complicated and sympathetic performance’, while Hollywood bible Variety added the two actors ‘shine’ in the ‘captivating divorce thriller’.In another gushing four star review, Metro's Sabrina Barr wrote: 'War is savage TV, a story reeking of ruthlessness that’s hidden behind a perfectly polished facade of courtesy and formality...'To summarise in more straightforward terms – I loved it, and could lap up many more seasons. The only shortfall for me was the slightly anticlimactic end, but I still found it a fantastic watch.'Sienna told People magazine: ‘The more you love someone off-screen, the more fun it is to hate them on-screen.’The show’s creator George Kay got the idea for the story when he was standing in an airport queue and a woman nearby suddenly screamed ‘Yes!’ into her phone.Intrigued, he asked her what had happened and she revealed her bitter divorce, which had dragged on for years, was finally over and she had secured a massive financial settlement.He revealed the idea for a drama exploring the extraordinary sums of money, power struggles and emotional warfare that can accompany the break-up of the super-rich.In the wake of the show's release, Sienna shared that she's been told she's 'lucky' by other actresses that she's only just turning 40, as they struggled to find work when they reached the same milestone. The New York Times said Sienna delivers a ‘deeply charismatic, complicated and sympathetic performance’, while Hollywood bible Variety added the two actors ‘shine’ in the ‘captivating divorce thriller’ (Sienna and Dominic pictured last month)She said: 'I feel less like I have to prove something, and I'm not sure whether that's because I don't have anything to prove, or I just don't care about proving myself any more.'I remember speaking to actresses who were like: ''You're so lucky that you're turning 40 now, because we were obsolete when that happened.'' But I still wish I'd played Juliet.'Sienna later joked that she is likely now too old to take on the Shakespearian role, adding they would probably need to cast an 'older Romeo.'She also recently revealed that she was pregnant while filming the entirety of the new divorce drama and was 35 weeks by the end of shooting. The duo are pictured arriving at Carla's premiere in the showThe actress welcomed her third child in April, her second with her partner Oli Green, 29, and they got engaged two months later. They also welcomed a child in January 2024.Sienna also shares a 14-year-old daughter, Marlowe, with actor Tom Sturridge, who she dated for four years until July 2015.In a new interview, Sienna told how the shoot was tough due to her pregnancy and that it was long days of filming which saw her 'leaving and coming home in the dark'.She starred alongside Phoebe Fox in War, who was also pregnant during shooting. Her pregnancy was written into the plot however.Sienna joked to The Observer: 'She got in first. We sat together scoffing Freddos in between shots.'