The Kill Team (2019)

"Even if you haven't seen the documentary version or read up on the events they summarize, you might still feel as if you're getting something less than the fullest, most arresting picture of what went down."

"The Kill Team paints a portrait of American exceptionalism. But it never quite shocks or awes."

"Despite glimpses of a larger critique of the American project in Afghanistan, and of the psychological and social sicknesses cultivated by two decades of continuous warfare, The Kill Team lets us escape from the horrors of war before it finishes demolishing the illusion of a clean one."

"It's Skarsgaard who anchors the film with his galvanizing performance as the sociopathic Deeks. His performance is all the more effective for its restraint and canny underplaying."

"Without letting these men off the hook for their crimes, Krauss’ shines a harsh and bracing light on what it means to be on the frontlines of a war that we have been fighting since the turn of the century."

"It's well worth watching, and thinking on."

"Atrocities don't exist in a vacuum, and "The Kill Team" is most valuable - and chillingly effective - as an exposé of the means by which honorable young military men grow comfortable with perpetrating heinous crimes."