Restrepo NYT Critics' Pick

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Outpost Films/National Geographic Entertainment

Specialist Kyle Steiner in the documentary “Restrepo.”
Battle Company: Loving Life, Making War
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: June 25, 2010

“Restrepo,” a documentary that sticks close to a company of American soldiers during a grueling 14-month tour of duty in an especially dangerous part of Afghanistan, is an impressive, even heroic feat of journalism. Not that the filmmakers — Sebastian Junger, an adventurous reporter perhaps best known as the author of “The Perfect Storm,” and Tim Hetherington, a photographer with extensive experience in war zones — call attention to their own bravery. They stay behind the portable high- and standard-definition video cameras, nimble flies on a wall that is exposed to a steady barrage of bullets. More