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Stanley Kubrick's The Killing is a clever and brisk crime film with plenty of twists.
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This taut crime picture was one of the earliest films in the career of Stanley Kubrick, but something of the director's voice and characteristic preoccupations are already evident here. Feb 5, 2015 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
This taut crime picture was one of the earliest films in the career of Stanley Kubrick, but something of the director's voice and characteristic preoccupations are already evident here.
Wendy Ide
Faultless and enjoyable. Jun 24, 2013 | Full Review…
Faultless and enjoyable.
David Thomson
At 27 Writer-Director Stanley Kubrick, in his third full-length picture, has shown more audacity with dialogue and camera than Hollywood has seen since the obstreperous Orson Welles went riding out of town on an exhibitors' poll. Aug 3, 2011 | Full Review…
At 27 Writer-Director Stanley Kubrick, in his third full-length picture, has shown more audacity with dialogue and camera than Hollywood has seen since the obstreperous Orson Welles went riding out of town on an exhibitors' poll.
[The film] at first tends to be somewhat confusing, soon settles into a tense and suspenseful vein which carries through to an unexpected and ironic windup. May 8, 2007 | Full Review…
[The film] at first tends to be somewhat confusing, soon settles into a tense and suspenseful vein which carries through to an unexpected and ironic windup.
Variety Staff
Arguably Stanley Kubrick's most perfectly conceived and executed film. May 8, 2007 | Full Review…
Arguably Stanley Kubrick's most perfectly conceived and executed film.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Characteristically Kubrick in both its mechanistic coldness and its vision of human endeavour undone by greed and deceit, this noir-ish heist movie is nevertheless far more satisfying than most of his later work. Feb 9, 2006 | Full Review…
Characteristically Kubrick in both its mechanistic coldness and its vision of human endeavour undone by greed and deceit, this noir-ish heist movie is nevertheless far more satisfying than most of his later work.
Geoff Andrew
The Killing (1956) is a stylish but stark film noir crime drama, and the definitive heist-caper movie - a story of greed and infidelity. The classic, dark-edged black and white film was 28 year-old writer/director Stanley Kubrick's third film Sep 29, 2019 | Rating: A+ | Full Review…
The Killing (1956) is a stylish but stark film noir crime drama, and the definitive heist-caper movie - a story of greed and infidelity. The classic, dark-edged black and white film was 28 year-old writer/director Stanley Kubrick's third film
Tim Dirks
The first genuinely great film by Stanley Kubrick... Mar 15, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
The first genuinely great film by Stanley Kubrick...
David Nusair
Unequivocally represents the genesis of Kubrick's insightful mindset. It is a living, breathing laboratory of precision and control. Aug 24, 2015 | Full Review…
Unequivocally represents the genesis of Kubrick's insightful mindset. It is a living, breathing laboratory of precision and control.
David Keyes
One of the undisputed high-water marks of the American crime film whose reverberations can still be felt in a number of ways. Mar 31, 2014 | Rating: 10/10 | Full Review…
One of the undisputed high-water marks of the American crime film whose reverberations can still be felt in a number of ways.
Tim Brayton
Underneath The Killing's clockwork violence is a pungent layer of irony, something Kubrick would further explore many times later in his career. Sep 14, 2013 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Underneath The Killing's clockwork violence is a pungent layer of irony, something Kubrick would further explore many times later in his career.
Glenn Heath Jr.
A brisk, satisfying film noir that features all the details of a racetrack heist gone wrong - even if the timeline is all shuffled out of order. It's thick with atmosphere and razor-sharp dialogue. Oct 27, 2011 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
A brisk, satisfying film noir that features all the details of a racetrack heist gone wrong - even if the timeline is all shuffled out of order. It's thick with atmosphere and razor-sharp dialogue.
Eric Melin
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