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Killer of Sheep (1977)

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Reviews Counted:70

Fresh:68

Rotten:2

Average Rating:8.8/10

Consensus: By turns funny, sad, and profound, Killer of Sheep offers a sympathetic and humane glimpse into inner-city life.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 83 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Mar 30, 2007 Limited

Starring: Henry Sanders, Kaycee Moore

Starring: Henry Sanders, Kaycee Moore

Director: Charles Burnett

Director: Charles Burnett

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Nearly avant-garde in its purity

Full Review Source: CinePassion | comment Comment
08/27/09
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

The fantastic thing about this beautiful film is how little it tries to make a statement about anything; it is, simply, life.

Full Review Source: GreenCine | comment Comment
07/30/09
Craig Phillips
Craig Phillips
GreenCine
N/R

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Full Review Source: CHUD | comment Comment
02/27/09
Devin Faraci
Devin Faraci
CHUD
N/R

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Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
10/18/08
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]

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Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
08/07/08
Jim Lane
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

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Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
06/20/08
Empire Magazine
N/R

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Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You | comment Comment
03/28/08
Leo Goldsmith
Leo Goldsmith
Not Coming to a Theater Near You

Burnett is a truly unsung cinematic movie pioneer, clearly in the vanguard in that lonely and trying battle to colorize, so to speak, ideas and experiences in film with his body of unheralded visionary work.

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
01/26/08
Prairie Miller
Prairie Miller
NewsBlaze

A little known, long lost classic thankfully becomes available on DVD after decades of obscurity.

Full Review Source: culturevulture.net | comment Comment
11/19/07
Paula Farmer
Paula Farmer
culturevulture.net

fills the screen with visual poetry that plays like intimate documentary

Full Review Source: Old School Reviews | comment Comment
11/11/07
John A. Nesbit
John A. Nesbit
Old School Reviews

A film that is hard to forget.

Full Review Source: Miami Herald | comment Comment
11/09/07
Marta Barber
Marta Barber
Miami Herald

It takes an eye-opening, unglamorous view of the black Los Angeles ghetto of the post-Watts riots.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
10/29/07
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

There's a voyeuristic, woe-is-them quality to the film that makes me uncomfortable.

Full Review Source: Fresno Bee | comment Comment
09/14/07
Donald Munro
Donald Munro
Fresno Bee

It may fill you with despair or offer up relief, but you will not be unmoved.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
09/07/07
Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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Burnett's empathy for his characters is obvious, and his carefully composed vignettes provide a host of indelible images...

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
08/31/07
David Schmeichel
David Schmeichel
Jam! Movies

As timeless as the human condition.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
08/17/07
Jeff Shannon
Jeff Shannon
Seattle Times

Don’t go to Killer of Sheep expecting a conventional movie experience. This is an art film, a realistic-yet-poetic examination of a time and place and the people stranded there.

Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
08/03/07
Robert W. Butler
Robert W. Butler
Kansas City Star

Burnett's documentarian empathy, coupled with his easygoing skill as a dramatic essayist, result in a film that doesn't look, feel or breathe like any American work of its generation.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
08/02/07
Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
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...his [Burnett's] tale about a south central Los Angeles neighborhood is stunning, and it holds up remarkably well.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
07/20/07
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

...about staying put and standing up - about what it means to be a man, or more precisely an adult, in a battering world that, at the end of the day, leaves you too tired to move.

Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
07/20/07
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
 
 
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