Though there is little new added to the extensive conversation surrounding the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, The Kill Team highlights the dangerous, and perhaps all too easy, radicalization that can happen in this culture.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 19, 2022

Krauss handles the action and intrigue with cool precision, though, and Skarsgard, with nailbrush moustache, is often chilling.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 17, 2020

By contrast, the new fiction film tends to suggest that the "Kill Team" was an aberrational exception in America's otherwise praiseworthy fighting force...

| Aug 5, 2020

[Writer/director Dan] Krauss builds a level of suspense and emotional tension that ... serve as a painful reminder that serial killing in the context of war is an issue that will never be fully erased.

| Jul 11, 2020

Much of the [film's] merit lies in the duel between its protagonists. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 18, 2019

In making Briggman less indecisive about the call to turn in his squad, the film doesn't allow for Deeks' justifications for his crimes to take hold.

| Nov 25, 2019

Hopefully, word-of-mouth is enough to make The Kill Team a hit.

| Nov 25, 2019

Skarsgard excels in the film based on a true story and the 2014 Krauss documentary. Gripping. A must-see.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 12, 2019

The Kill Team's depiction of toxic masculinity and bloodthirstiness within the U.S. Army is blunted by an overly passive lead performance and a lack of specificity in its storytelling.

| Oct 31, 2019

The Kill Team is an excellent and haunting film, believably acted, and flawlessly directed, that dives deep into a contemporary soldier's story in the war of Afghanistan.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Oct 31, 2019

The Kill Team is lean, sincere, impassioned filmmaking, yet it fails to leave as much of an impression as it clearly wants to.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 31, 2019

Why make a feature film based on your own documentary?

| Original Score: 2.75/5 | Oct 30, 2019

It's actually the second half I found the most compelling... I find the last 30 minutes the most interesting of all, but [director Dan Krauss] doesn't explore it as much as I wish he would.

| Oct 28, 2019

It's a very intense film. It is thrilling, but knowing that this all actually happened made it a little bit different for me.

| Oct 28, 2019

A true strength of this film is its willingness to honestly portray the shortcomings of military procedure and how war crimes this brazen can happen under this country's nose.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 28, 2019

Another potent expression of a theme that has become unhappily common in films about America's recent wartime experience.

| Original Score: B | Oct 26, 2019

The director's less equals more approach, allows Kill Team narrow focus despite having little new to offer in the way of military corruption.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 26, 2019

[Even] at only a scant 87-minutes I had trouble maintaining interest in all that was happening all the way through to the end.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 26, 2019

This is not just another war movie. This time, the enemy is the home team, proving that not all soldiers are saints.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 25, 2019

Krauss digs into the murky, uneasy morality of wartime, but "The Kill Team" doesn't quite convey the brutality of these crimes with the same power that news accounts or even Krauss' own documentary have.

| Oct 25, 2019