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Killing Them Softly

2012

Andrew Dominik

Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, Richard Jenkins ...

5.8

28,822

Film noir. Thriller Frankie and Russell, two not-too-bright ex-cons, are hired by John "The Squirrel" Amato to disrupt a high-stakes backroom poker game, rob the players and frame someone else for the job. That someone else is the card game's manager, who's suspected of staging a previous poker robbery. Unfortunately, the game was under the protection of the mob, whose lawyer is ordered to find those responsible and take care of them. He hires hitman ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Richard Corliss Time	"A genre film — a timid, subpar grafting of the immortal 'Pulp Fiction' — with art-house pretensions (...) the only thing that truly rewards your attendance is Pitt in another effortless star performance"	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A juicy, bloody, grimy and profane crime drama (...) The film is terribly smart in every respect, with ne’er-a-false note performances and superb craft work from top to bottom"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"'In Killing Them Softly', Dominik's first feature since 'The Assassination of Jesse James', Pitt once again plays a quietly powerful sociopath, and once again the screen vibrates"	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"Languorous to the point of rambling, the story of double-crossing and vengeance is darkly funny, graphically violent and gorgeously shot (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"It seems as if I've been seeing versions of this story since forever (...) The charisma of such actors as Gandolfini, Pitt, Liotta and Jenkins depends largely on their screen presences and our memories of them in better roles (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU

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