ReelViewsKiller Joe earns its NC-17 rating. A gleeful and unapologetic descent into delicious decadence, Killer Joe is proud of what ...
FirstShowingWith Friedkin's expertise as a storyteller hitting every mark and McConaughey absolutely unchained, Killer Joe is the kind o...
Entertainment WeeklyKiller Joe throws down a dare by expecting its audience to be the cool connoisseurs of the story's "comic" outrageousness, t...
JobloAfter a long career that is still defined by efforts made some 30+ years ago, William Friedkin has suddenly reemerged as a d...
San Francisco ChronicleIt seems only fair to start with the one thing that's right with it: It's not dead. It should be, but it's not.
The New York Times No one goes to a Step Up movie for the plot or the romance. Only the dancing matters here.
USA TodayThere isn't a franchise around that matches the kids' moves in the Step Up series. We just need a better reason to dance alo...
New York PostThe choreography is solid throughout, but director Scott Speer gets in his own way every time, relentlessly shifting camera ...
Washington PostStep Up: You've Seen All This Before would be more accurate, but Summit Entertainment's marketing department knows that woul...
Entertainment WeeklyThrows down a dare by expecting its audience to be the cool connoisseurs of the story's "comic" outrageousness, then rubbing...
Salon ArtsFriedkin's still got it - the "it" being his ability to infuse every frame of the film with powerful ambiguity and doubt, an...
New York Daily NewsKiller Joe offers us a sneering image of trailer-park Texas, in which everyone is stupid and amoral and trashier than their ...
Rolling StoneAs a sadistic dallas cop who moonlights as a hit man, Matthew McConaughey is on fire in Killer Joe, fierce and ferociously f...
Wall Street JournalKiller Joe is, at bottom-and I mean bottom-ugly and vile, not to mention dumb and clumsy.
New York PostA sleazy and pointless film about sleazy and pointless people, Killer Joe reminds us that what Quentin Tarantino does isn't ...
SlatePlot twists that might have played as clever onstage feel false on screen, and while the individual actors are all gifted (i...
Film School RejectsA slow-burn, gloriously batshit film with pitch-perfect performances and a difficult tone struck by a master filmmaker.
Total FilmFriedkin's unflinching trailer-park noir features ugly characters, game performances, degradation and the obscene abuse of a...
The GuardianMatthew McConaughey is another of William Friedkin's unquiet spirits, as a hitman-cop who rides roughshod over a dysfunction...
TelegraphWilliam Friedkin's Killer Joe, which opened the Edinburgh International Film Festival features a positively Jacobean climax,...
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Partial Film Information
Director: William Friedkin
Writer: Tracy Letts
Studio: Voltage Pictures
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Thomas Haden Church
Release: July 27, 2012
Writer: Tracy Letts
Studio: Voltage Pictures
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Thomas Haden Church
Release: July 27, 2012
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