The Kill Team makes clear that the unit was not some rogue outfit, but conducting itself according to the US military's standard operating procedures.

| Feb 26, 2021

The Kill Team should raise questions about societal shifts that desensitize realities about war and relationships between peoples.

| Jun 20, 2017

This is a powerful and effective documentary that exposes facts about the nature of war that the military establishment would rather keep secret. It serves as a reminder about the high levels of corruption in the military.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 24, 2014

Its extraordinary story can hardly help but involve and outrage.

| Sep 15, 2014

All is not fair in love and war, but the battlefield can be a place where the lines begin to blur.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 15, 2014

Explosive and depressing.

| Sep 15, 2014

Krauss's documentary is both solid and scathing, raising more questions that it answers.

| Sep 11, 2014

Is the story of The Kill Team singular? That's the unspoken question that hangs over this award-winning documentary, another artifact from the "war on terror."

| Sep 8, 2014

While "The Kill Team" is well worth watching, the jury's out.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2014

What emerges is a searing indictment of military culture that touches on other recent scandals.

| Aug 28, 2014

Krauss is too responsible to do anything flashy with this material. He tells the story directly and in depth.

| Aug 21, 2014

It's a beautiful way to lose faith in humanity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 21, 2014

A documentary that leans heavily on a viewer's innate interest in tangled philosophical questions of guilt and corrupted innocence.

| Original Score: 6.8/10 | Aug 16, 2014

[Krauss] delivers extraordinary material and presents a story meriting attention. He captures how regular people, when existing among vile mindsets, can, themselves, start thinking malignantly.

| Aug 8, 2014

Even as Montalvo aptly draws attention to the people who are dead, to the consequences of the soldiers' decisions, the film also points to a wider framework.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 8, 2014

It all adds up to a harrowing picture of the casualties of war - and the unchecked madness that may drive those entrusted to defend us.

| Aug 7, 2014

Daniel Kraus' absorbing documentary The Kill Team demonstrates how badly trying to do the right thing can backfire.

| Jul 31, 2014

A military platoon bent on murdering Afghan civilians for pleasure is the target of this chillingly frank documentary.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 31, 2014

It's a terrible, inexcusable mark on our contemporary military history, and Krauss's documentary does nothing to dull the horror surrounding the incidents.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 31, 2014

The scope of the film can be frustratingly narrow. But even this limited view into the events of the Maywand District murders is gripping cinema.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 31, 2014