A young American soldier in Afghanistan is disturbed by his commanding officer's behavior and is faced with a moral dilemma.... (Full plot summary below)
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A young American soldier in Afghanistan is disturbed by his commanding officer's behavior and is faced with a moral dilemma.
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| IndieWireDavid EhrlichAs lucid and intense as it is underwritten, his second crack at the Maywan District murders might be much less nuanced than his first, but this riveting thriller still manages to amplify its subject much louder than Krauss has been able to before. |
| San Francisco ChronicleZaki HasanThe Kill Team serves an essential function by illustrating in agonizing detail not only how easily morality can be subjugated to hate, but how important it is for people of conscience to do the right thing. It’s deeply uncomfortable viewing at times, but it’s no less necessary a story to experience. |
| The Film StageJohn FinkKrauss packs a lot into what could be read as a prequel for his documentary, creating a brutal war on terror picture with a timely context. |
| TheWrapMonica Castillo“The Kill Team” is both a tense moral thriller and a disheartening account of our country’s actions abroad. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckDespite superb performances by Nat Wolff as a conflicted young soldier and particularly Alexander Skarsgard as a sociopathic platoon leader, the picture proves only sporadically compelling. |
| VarietyNick SchagerThose familiar with this story won’t find any novel twists here, but Krauss astutely conveys the literal and moral quagmires produced by such military situations. |
| Screen InternationalStephen WhittyAt its core, The Kill Team has one great performance, and some important things to say – about the dangerous appeal of the strong, and the easy malleability of the young. It’s well worth watching, and thinking on. It’s just a shame that that great performance isn’t matched by all the others – and that what the film has to say is said in such a dutifully by-the-book way. |
| The A.V. ClubRoxana HadadiIts 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. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreThe big and small screens have been awash in military features and documentaries since 9/11, and there’s not a lot to The Kill Team that qualifies as new or surprising. But a decent level of suspense and the genuine dread Skarsgård casts, like a shadow, inform it and make it stand out in a genre that may not outlive America’s endless military involvement in that corner of the world. |
| Slant MagazinePat BrownDespite glimpses of a larger critique of the American project in Afghanistan, it lets us escape from the horrors of war before it finishes demolishing the illusion of a clean one. |
