The Kill Team's reviews
Media reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
Despite 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.
Variety
Those 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.
The Wrap
?The Kill Team? is both a tense moral thriller and a disheartening account of our country?s actions abroad.
Screen Daily
At 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. Club
Its 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.
Los Angeles Times
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.