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

| Sep 11, 2014

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 21, 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

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

| Original Score: A- | 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

Over and over, Winfield's distraught parents ask, rhetorically, what choice their son had. Thing is, the answer is right in the film ...

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 31, 2014

The movie's haunting power stems from a paradox at the heart of its narrative.

| Jul 28, 2014

A terrifying example of how easily basic human decency and morality can melt away in the fog of war.

| Jul 25, 2014

It offers a deep, troubling probe into a military culture that both incubates horrifically criminal acts against innocents and throws innumerable obstacles in the paths of soldiers who would thwart or report those outrages.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 25, 2014

Looks at the murders and their aftermath through a frustratingly narrow lens.

| Jul 24, 2014

The setting is Afghanistan, but it might be Iraq or Vietnam or anywhere with occupying forces. It might be Gaza. This map of hell is timeless, placeless.

| Jul 24, 2014

Finds drama in evenhanded storytelling that is the inverse of its characters' emotional shakiness.

| Jul 22, 2014

The film is weak on its essential indictment, vaguely suggesting a mood of battlefield boredom without quite pinpointing the pathology that would lead military men to squeeze the trigger pell-mell.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 22, 2014

It's hard to watch, but important to witness.

| Jul 21, 2014

The mesmerizing documentary about a group of U.S. soldiers killing Afghan citizens for kicks, circa 2010, has the kind of urgent intimacy that characterizes the best such non-fiction films.

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

A blood-boiling documentary whose constrained viewpoint on its subject -- U.S. soldiers' sport-killing of Afghan civilians in 2010, and the prosecutions that followed -- doesn't prevent it from moving viewers to the point of despair.

| Jul 21, 2014

This chilling war-is-hell expose [is] must-see viewing.

| Jul 21, 2014

This is a rare War on Terror military expos, one almost exclusively interested in the hearts and minds of low-ranking soldiers.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 20, 2014

[A] gripping documentary.

| May 8, 2014

"The Kill Team" is emotionally heavy; as you watch, you feel conflicted about Winfield's role and about your own perception of right and wrong.

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