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  • 2014
  • R
  • ITVS International
  • 1 h 19 m
  • 2014
  • R
  • ITVS International
  • 1 h 19 m

Summary The Kill Team looks at the devastating moral tensions that tear at soldiers’ psyches through the lens of one highly personal and emotional story. Private Adam Winfield was a 21-year-old soldier in Afghanistan when he attempted with the help of his father to alert the military to heinous war crimes his platoon was committing. But Winfield...

Directed By: Dan Krauss

  • 2014
  • R
  • ITVS International
  • 1 h 19 m
  • 2014
  • R
  • ITVS International
  • 1 h 19 m

The Kill Team

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary The Kill Team looks at the devastating moral tensions that tear at soldiers’ psyches through the lens of one highly personal and emotional story. Private Adam Winfield was a 21-year-old soldier in Afghanistan when he attempted with the help of his father to alert the military to heinous war crimes his platoon was committing. But Winfield...

Directed By: Dan Krauss

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100
Jul 24, 2014
The Kill Team doesn't saint Winfield at all, instead, smartly casting responsible, impartial questions as to what his options could have been.
By Gabe Toro FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 7, 2014
A harrowing picture of the casualties of war — and the unchecked madness that may drive those entrusted to defend us.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
80
Jul 25, 2014
The Kill Team, an essential film no matter what your political convictions. 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.
By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW
75
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.
By Peter Hartlaub FULL REVIEW
70
Jul 24, 2014
The Kill Team tells a compelling story, but the 79-minute runtime leaves that story feeling incomplete.
By Nathan Rabin FULL REVIEW
60
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.
By Joshua Rothkopf FULL REVIEW
50
Jul 24, 2014
Mr. Krauss might have served his material better if he had pulled the curtain back in The Kill Team, if only to explain why a movie that initially seems to be about one thing — as its shocker title suggests — is a partisan portrait of Specialist Winfield and his family.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Motto Pictures, f/8 Filmworks
Release Date Jul 25, 2014
Duration 1 h 19 m
Rating R
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Website http://www.facebook.com/KillTeamMovie
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Awards

San Francisco International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
RiverRun International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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