Kill Your Friends
2015, Comedy/Mystery and thriller, 1h 43m
61 Reviews 1,000+ RatingsWhat to know
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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. Read critic reviews
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Stelfox
Waters
Parker-Hall
Rebecca
DC Woodham
Barbara
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Critic Reviews for Kill Your Friends
All Critics (61) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (47)
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Mistakenly thinks a lot of profanity, ugliness and bloodshed [...] are, in and of themselves, enough to sustain a satire about showbiz ruthlessness.
April 1, 2016 | 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.
April 1, 2016 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review… -
"Kill Your Friends" goes to some ugly places, but it keeps a sturdy sense of rhythm.
April 1, 2016 | Rating: B- | 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.
April 1, 2016 | Full Review… -
Anchoring the pungent 1990s ambience is Mr. Hoult, easily oozing cool charisma.
March 31, 2016 | 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.
March 31, 2016 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Kill Your Friends
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Aug 13, 2016Badly written and filled with hateful characters, it's a juvenile facsimile of American Psycho.Daniel P Super Reviewer
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Jun 15, 2016http://cinephilecrocodile.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/kill-yourfriends-dir-owen-harris-2015.htmlAnthony L Super Reviewer
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Mar 05, 2016Take American Psycho, set it in the UK, change the 80's music to the 90's Britpop scene and you near enough have this. Very good soundtrack but, if you have seen American Psycho you know exactly what to expect from this yet it is still enjoyable.Ian W Super Reviewer
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Mar 04, 2016A 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.Kevin M. W Super Reviewer
Kill Your Friends Quotes
Stelfox: | In every age men are born, who, in their heart in the black of their blood are warriors. But for most of us there are no longer wars to fight. What must they do? These men? |
Stelfox: | Power comes and the unrelentless chase for the unattainable. |
Stelfox: | At some point in the coming year one of us will be fired. I have no intention on it being me. |
Stelfox: | Imagine you are standing on wafer thin ice. Beneath your feet you can see sharks, circling. These are your colleagues, your friends. Welcome to the music industry. |
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