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

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

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

"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

The first film was for us. This one's for them.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 19, 2014

The focus is on the psychology of wartime existence, descriptions of sights, sounds and feelings, girded by the vrit footage rather than driven by it.

| Jun 12, 2014

Sebastian Junger delivers a worthy companion piece to 'Restrepo' with this more reflective dispatch from the front lines of Afghanistan.

| May 30, 2014

"Korengal" is a collective meditation on military life by many of the same men, looking back on their time in Afghanistan.

| May 29, 2014

[As] a sequel [to Restrepo], the film provides an illuminating counterpoint [...] unpacking "survival" as a process, where it was previously just a noun.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 29, 2014

A confused, but heartfelt eulogy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 29, 2014

Korengal deals with memories rather than realities, and yet leaves those memories unexamined.

| Original Score: C | May 29, 2014

The film is passionate, but not exactly revelatory.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 28, 2014

More conventional, but more introspective than its predecessor.

| May 27, 2014

As a record of the war, the two films are imperishable.

Full Review | May 26, 2014

The death of Hetherington in Libya imbues this Restrepo follow-up with pathos - as do the brutal conditions endured by its subjects.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 26, 2014

The result is an alternately gripping and dully meandering patchwork of these soldiers' stay in the Korengal that pointedly shuns big-picture philosophizing.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 26, 2014