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Korengal Reviews
There is plenty of frustration to be found in wishing Korengal differentiated itself from its antecedent. But depoliticized and empathetically honest documentaries about those who fight for their country are few and far between.
| Mar 4, 2021
Inside the hearts and minds of Restrepo.
| Aug 19, 2019
A documentary entirely made up of leftover footage from its predecessor, and yet it feels essential, a unique portrait of the wartime experience.
| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 2, 2019
While much insights are the same. . .now grudging honesty from African-American soldiers on differences [and] barely disguised cultural condescension to native Pashtuns.
| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 2, 2016
If the first film was made more for civilians who have never experienced war, the second seems to be aimed at veterans who want to reflect on their experiences.
| Original Score: B | Jul 10, 2014
Remarkably frank, Korengal espouses no one clear sentiment towards war.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 7, 2014
Most fascinating is the seemingly unanimous feeling that while deployment in Korengal was hard and heartbreaking, these veterans would do it all again just to stay together, to remain brothers who mutually understand something no on else will ever know.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 3, 2014
Reminds us that Americans not very different than ourselves took the military as a job of work.
| Jul 2, 2014
Not quite a coda to Sebastian Junger's and Tim Heatherington's...Restrepo - more of a commentary track, or a series of annotations.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 27, 2014
"Korengal" revisits some of the men featured in the original, talking to them stateside about their experiences. They make poignant if not unprecedented insights into the warrior code, and into the complicated lives of stateside veterans.
Full Review | Jun 27, 2014
In a series of expertly edited interviews conducted with infantrymen on their way home after a year in the Korengal Valley, Junger exposes us to the war's psychological toll.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 27, 2014
"Korengal" doesn't have the immediacy of "Restrepo," but it's frequently affecting, as well as being a remembrance of just how young the people are we send into harm's way.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 27, 2014
Korengal lets us see how young men in the U.S. Army came together, formed friendships and shared troubles that we may never fully understand. We should, at least, try.
Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jun 26, 2014
"Restrepo" felt like the story of how boys become men. "Korengal" feels like the story of how strangers become family.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 26, 2014
Those of us who haven't served on active duty can't know what it's like. Taken together, "Restrepo" and "Korengal" brings us about as close to the experience as we can, or would want, to get.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 26, 2014
The film is a tribute to the courage, tenacity and sorrow of the men with their boots on the ground in a place very far away.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 26, 2014
They hash out the manifold ordeals of their service, but rarely does anything startlingly new emerge -- which is not to say that the film doesn't have value. War is hell and always will be.
| Original Score: B | Jun 20, 2014
You go to war with the Hemingway you have. Ours is Sebastian Junger. KORENGAL is riveting, you-are-there filmmaking.
| Original Score: A minus | Jun 20, 2014
The success of 'Korengal' lies in its ability to convey the complicated mixture of emotions connected to the combat experience.
| Original Score: B | Jun 20, 2014