Through the incorporation of multiple strategically placed cameras, including helmet cams, the filmmakers, who achieved a similar, grunts-eye-view in 2014's "The Hornet's Nest," create an undeniably palpable experience. Full Review

The tension in CITIZEN SOLDIER is enough to make you gnaw through your fingernails....The sense of danger is palpable, as is the sense of misery after the most dreadful scenes.

Rating: 3.5/5 -- It's well edited to create a film that tells the soldiers' story well, and for that, many small sins can be forgiven. Full Review

The tension in "Citizen Soldier" is enough to make you gnaw through your fingernails. Full Review

For want of a better term, this gives you a "first-person shooter" look at actual war: It's Call of Duty with no cheats or respawns, and real-world consequences. Full Review

Where other good war docs have done more of the storytelling retrospectively, the directors here bounce around in-the-moment POV angles to keep us in the action. Full Review

Rating: 3.5/5 -- Very highly recommended. Full Review