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Kill Your Friends takes futile stabs at black comedy, all strangled by a glut of tonal jumbles, bad casting, and unremittingly unlikable characters.
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Everyone is horrible all the time-so when they do horrible things to each other, the result is a chuckle rather than a vicious bite. The music business is cutthroat, we get it. Apr 1, 2016 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Everyone is horrible all the time-so when they do horrible things to each other, the result is a chuckle rather than a vicious bite. The music business is cutthroat, we get it.
Christy Lemire
"Kill Your Friends" goes to some ugly places, but it keeps a sturdy sense of rhythm. Apr 1, 2016 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
"Kill Your Friends" goes to some ugly places, but it keeps a sturdy sense of rhythm.
Adam Graham
Watching "Kill Your Friends" unfold is not dissimilar to being at a party where someone's clever one-liner lulls you into a conversation that reveals a bitterly immature, dismissively one-note lout, after which you're trapped. Apr 1, 2016 | Full Review…
Watching "Kill Your Friends" unfold is not dissimilar to being at a party where someone's clever one-liner lulls you into a conversation that reveals a bitterly immature, dismissively one-note lout, after which you're trapped.
Robert Abele
Anchoring the pungent 1990s ambience is Mr. Hoult, easily oozing cool charisma. Mar 31, 2016 | Full Review…
Anchoring the pungent 1990s ambience is Mr. Hoult, easily oozing cool charisma.
Andy Webster
Though the script is full of arch, darkly funny observations, the movie gets stuck on the same clanging chord of all-hating cynicism. Mar 31, 2016 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Though the script is full of arch, darkly funny observations, the movie gets stuck on the same clanging chord of all-hating cynicism.
Kyle Smith
A more disagreeable collection of cynical, backstabbing, self-aggrandizing, shallow, vicious and vile specimens of humanity gathered together in a single motion picture would be difficult to conceive of. Mar 31, 2016 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
A more disagreeable collection of cynical, backstabbing, self-aggrandizing, shallow, vicious and vile specimens of humanity gathered together in a single motion picture would be difficult to conceive of.
Soren Andersen
A would-be blacker-than-black comedy that is so misconceived and so wretchedly executed that I have no trouble in putting it down as one of the most unpleasant afternoons I've ever spent in the cinema. Oct 25, 2017 | Rating: 0/5 | Full Review…
A would-be blacker-than-black comedy that is so misconceived and so wretchedly executed that I have no trouble in putting it down as one of the most unpleasant afternoons I've ever spent in the cinema.
Matthew Bond
Hoult is a fine actor for sure but he's just too damn good-looking and smooth as the dark-hearted record company man. Hoult's craven A&R man has the killer instinct but his insecurities never seem entirely convincing. Jul 19, 2016 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Hoult is a fine actor for sure but he's just too damn good-looking and smooth as the dark-hearted record company man. Hoult's craven A&R man has the killer instinct but his insecurities never seem entirely convincing.
Alan Corr
Saturates itself in nihilistic excess while presenting an uncompromisingly grim portrait of the recording industry. What is has to say, however, eventually grows stale as its narrative repetitively hits the same beats again and again. Jun 9, 2016 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Saturates itself in nihilistic excess while presenting an uncompromisingly grim portrait of the recording industry. What is has to say, however, eventually grows stale as its narrative repetitively hits the same beats again and again.
Dustin Putman
As adapted by screenwriter John Niven from his own novel, Kill Your Friends has a decidedly been-there, killed-that feel to it. Jun 6, 2016 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
As adapted by screenwriter John Niven from his own novel, Kill Your Friends has a decidedly been-there, killed-that feel to it.
Peter Canavese
Nicholas Hoult shines in this blackest of black comedies. Apr 15, 2016 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…
Nicholas Hoult shines in this blackest of black comedies.
Austin Trunick
The cynical film might be more annoying than eyeopening but the soundtrack kicks, as it features groups like Blur, Oasis and Radiohead. Apr 9, 2016 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
The cynical film might be more annoying than eyeopening but the soundtrack kicks, as it features groups like Blur, Oasis and Radiohead.
Dennis Schwartz
Badly written and filled with hateful characters, it's a juvenile facsimile of American Psycho.
Super Reviewer
All bark, no bite.
A nasty individual does the classic bad guy monologuing ... for the length of the film. It's about the cutthroat record business in London (ha ha). Starts cleverly enough but loses steam in the middle. There's a girl band send-up that could've been milked more.
I liked this story a lot more when it was called American Psycho - come on, let's face it, the comparison is inevitable -, but still, even if it starts to be predictable and lose gas after halfway through, this is a decent, darkly humored film centered on a rotten character.
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