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'Korengal' focuses on the postwar lives of a combat team from Afghanistan

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'Korengal' is somewhat of a follow-up to Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington's documentary 'Restrepo.'

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Outpost Films and Saboteur Media
Sterling Jones participates in a firefight at OP Restrepo in Afghanistan, in the documentary film 'Korengal.'
  • By Peter Rainer Film critic

鈥淜orengal鈥� is a kind of follow-up to the Oscar-nominated documentary聽鈥淩estrepo,鈥� in which journalists Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington聽brought us way inside Afghanistan鈥檚 most dangerous outpost.聽Hetherington subsequently was killed covering the civil war in Libya.聽

Junger returns to the fray in 鈥淜orengal,鈥� although this film focuses on postwar聽interviews with many of the same men from the 173rd聽Combat Team. They hash out the manifold ordeals of their service, but聽rarely does anything startlingly new emerge 鈥� which is not to say that the聽film doesn鈥檛 have value. War is hell and always will be.聽

But when one of聽the soldiers, Misha Pemble-Belkin, comparing serving in Afghanistan to his current聽civilian life, says 鈥淚鈥檇 rather be there than here,鈥� you wish the film had聽dug deeper into this mind-set. Grade:聽B (Rated R for language throughout and brief nude images)

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