Killing Them Softly Reviews
We Got This Covered
Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly is a potent and miraculously-shot film that captures America's recent financial collapse through a criminal lens.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Cinemania
A noir-ish crime drama with a brain, and despite its flaws and inconsistencies, a film worth seeing. Dominik remains a filmmaker to watch.
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| Original Score: 72/100
Film4
Complex and problematic in a rather wonderful way, Killing Them Softly has flaws more interesting than some film's perfections.
Concrete Playground
Brad Pitt excels amongst an incredible ensemble cast in this gritty crime thriller.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
American Profile
A top-notch, viscerally powerfully mobster movie with a view of free-market enterprise as practiced at its most harrowingly basic, last-man-standing level.
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| Original Score: 3/5
WBAI Radio
Australian director Andrew Dominik mixes conventional mobster mayhem with an unconventional take on gangsters caught up in the Great Recession. And with Brad Pitt as his ideologically enraged male muse hitman, as if wandering in from Occupy Wall Street.
Movie Habit
Director Andrew Dominik controls the clock
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
StaciWilson.com
It's a rollercoaster: long talky tete a tetes, punctuated with shocking violence (both of which are masterfully presented).
Scene-Stealers.com
Killing Them Softly finds its own rhythm and eventually its own way of building dread, punctuated by bravura cinematic moments that won't soon be forgotten
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
The Scorecard Review
The completely obvious comparison to the mobster world and our American economic system is a welcome, straight-forward surprise for storytelling.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Cinemalogue.com
The pace is deliberate, yet that simmering sociopolitical undercurrent gives Killing Them Softly more weight than its rather conventional concept might suggest.
PopPolitics.com
Jackie Cogan understands his fate in a way that the other smart guys don't quite, an understanding that makes him seem somehow smarter.
PopMatters
Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt) understands his fate in a way that the other smart guys don't quite, an understanding that makes him seem somehow smarter.
Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
It's a pleasure to watch Pitt work in dialogue-rich, subversively comic film noir.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Reno News and Review
Ray Liotta gets his butt super kicked in this one. It's actually quite scary.
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| Original Score: 3.75/5
Monsters and Critics
Emerging director Andrew Dominick comes out swinging in this nonsensical gangland farce.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Boston Phoenix
The closing punchline is such a knockout, you might forgive the lack of subtlety preceding it.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Antagony & Ecstasy
Absent poppy dialogue and a few terrifically well-staged action scenes, the director doesn't seem very alive to the material.
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| Original Score: 7/10
The National
Pitt's best work in years. His final, show-stopping speech is phenomenal.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Film Threat
You may find yourself wishing these hooligans would raise a little more hell and watch a little less C-SPAN.
