Anyone who still thinks of America’s presence in Afghanistan as a heroic affair will be swiftly disabused of that notion.

A warts-and-all look at in-the-trenches behavior and misbehavior. Full Review

Rating: 2.5 -- The portrait it paints of its Marines is appropriately discordant, redolent of the twitchy frustration caused by a long stint in a sparse landscape with a hazy mission. Full Review

[A] warts-and-all look at in-the-trenches behavior and misbehavior.

Rating: 8/10 -- [in this] jangled, jarring Afghan War documentary, a Marine Corps cameraman shows the flippant cynicism of combat in ways the military would rather we not think about. Full Review

Rating: 8/10 -- An unfiltered tour-de-force of witness to things that cannot remain unseen... His sense of dynamic montage is a fragmentation of consciousness unto itself: you cannot predict whether kindness will follow confusion or terror comes after raucous laughter. Full Review

It shows that war is never, ever kind. There is no victory in most victories, and defeat is always near. Yet, the film finds the time to show how humanity can bloom on the battlefield, or maybe it was always there and we've just never had it shown to us. Full Review