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Killer Joe

2011

William Friedkin

Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Thomas Haden Church, Gina Gershon ...

6.0

7,896

Thriller. Drama Finding himself in considerable debt, Chris a Texan drug dealer, decides the only solution is to murder his mother to collect the insurance money. Getting together with his father, the ex-husband of Chris’ mother, they decide to hire Joe Cooper a contract killer, who also happens to be a police detective.

	Author	Review
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"It feels as if Mr. Friedkin is consistently controlled by the story’s excesses rather than in control of them."	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[It] is one hell of a movie. It left me speechless. I can't say I loved it. I can't say I hated it. It is expertly directed, flawlessly cast and written with merciless black humor (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"A sleazy and pointless film about sleazy and pointless people, 'Killer Joe' reminds us that what Quentin Tarantino does isn't easy (...) Rating: ½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"As a sadistic dallas cop who moonlights as a hit man, Matthew McConaughey is on fire in Killer Joe, fierce and ferociously funny (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News	"What's most notable about this aggressively cynical project is how much talent it wastes (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Friedkin and Letts don't pull their punches, and Matthew McConaughey holds the centre of the movie as a cold, cruel gourmand of violence (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times	"With McConaughey’s virtuoso turn as a completely virtueless man, the filmmaker may just have pulled it off."	POS

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