The film clumsily debates the ethical pros and cons of this dispassionate form of warfare.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 11, 2015

But the visuals pack a visceral punch. Every time Tom zeroes in on a target, every time he pushes that button, what we see on those monitors is brutally authentic.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.0 | May 22, 2015

"Good Kill" is darkly enlightening, but it's not really all that good.

| Original Score: C+ | May 22, 2015

The audience seems likely to leave feeling scolded or pandered to, depending. Not a great time.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 21, 2015

"Good Kill" wants to use the movies as a Trojan horse to confront us with our international sins. It's a worthy effort, even if it's not a very well-built horse.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 21, 2015

Thoughtful and immensely gripping ...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 21, 2015

One of the most insightful films about the War on Terror since 9/11.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 21, 2015

Directed and written by Andrew Niccol (whose phenomenal 1997 film Gattaca also starred Hawke), and supposedly "based on actual events," Good Kill raises important questions about the nature of modern warfare, but it is a bit heavy-handed and strained.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 21, 2015

The discomfiting premise and a fine performance by Hawke make this somewhat thinly written drama worth seeing.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 21, 2015

The bold, confrontational tone commands one's attention, and the cast -- which also includes Bruce Greenwood and Zoe Kravitz -- is superb.

| May 21, 2015

For the most part, "Good Kill" asks pertinent, enduring questions, not by way of polemic, but through the study of a character whose professionalism and competence are given full respect, even when they're challenged by the mission at hand.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 21, 2015

We need to have a dialogue about the wages of war in the remote-control era. But it's hard to spark a good dialogue with movies whose dialogue is so bad.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 21, 2015

This is repugnant stuff. But, at least in the film, there's no gray area.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 21, 2015

Potent enough to make me wish it were less clunky.

| May 17, 2015

An intelligent but not terribly effective drama. And its discussion of military ethics, especially with regard to what it means to be able to kill people without physical consequences, is promising, but it does not go far enough.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 17, 2015

It's a movie that hits every one of its ideological targets, but still winds up missing the mark.

| May 16, 2015

Good Kill is well-intentioned, but the topic of joystick combat needs more nuanced treatment than it gets here.

| Original Score: B- | May 15, 2015

Intimate and absorbing with a timely message that's right on target.

| May 15, 2015

Good Kill is half-measure, with a redemptive ending that plays as safe and bogus.

| May 15, 2015

Where Niccol succeeds is in creating an atmosphere of self-loathing, both for those manning the drones and the audience watching them work.

| May 14, 2015