Washington PostPossesses a modicum of swagger and style, even as it perpetuates some of the crime genre's more tedious cliches, from slow-m...
The New YorkerOne of the best things in the movie is a conversation between Pitt and Jenkins, on a torrential day, seated in a nondescript...
Chicago TribuneThis is a talkative picture, allowing time and space for comically preoccupied and quirkily pathetic exchanges between all s...
Rolling StoneThe acting is aces, especially Pitt mixing it up with the superb James Gandolfini, as an assassin losing his game to hooch a...
The New York TimesThe movie is more concerned with conjuring an aura of meaningfulness than with actually meaning anything.
The Boston GlobeA bleakly comic, brutally Darwinian gangland saga that at times comes close to being this year's Drive.
The Philadelphia InquirerJolting, suspenseful, full of twisted sympathy for its goons' row of characters, and wickedly amusing to boot, Killing Them ...
USA TodayLanguorous to the point of rambling, the story of double-crossing and vengeance is darkly funny, graphically violent and gor...
Los Angeles TimesThe writer-director becomes so intent on hammering home the parallels between economic decay, political disappointments and ...
Salon ArtsIt has a weird, buzzing, intense quality that has burrowed its way deep into my brain like some invasive sci-fi organism.
SlateIt's hard to deglamorize the criminal life when you can't resist showing a bullet leaving a gun barrel in stylized super-slo...
San Francisco ChronicleThere is not one moment in the film that doesn't represent the director's carefully considered thought, whether we're talkin...
New York Daily NewsPitt, entering his third decade of fame, continues to show how there was always a deadly serious actor in him all along.
New York PostIt isn't much of a movie. I might forgive the slow start if it weren't for the slow middle and slow end.
Richard RoeperKilling Them Softly collapses under the crushing weight of the director's narcissism.
Chicago Sun-Times"Killing Them Softly” begins with a George V. Higgins novel set in Boston in 1974 and moves its story to post-Katrina New Or...
Entertainment WeeklyKilling Them Softly is a lurid and nasty little nihilistic hitman noir, with an ingenuity that sneaks up on you.
Film School RejectsDominik’s movie is dripped in coolness; self-indulgent in the best ways possible; another unshowy performance from Brad Pitt...
FirstShowingNeither subtle nor optimistic, it's a film you have to admire for the way it drives its message in like a nail. It would be ...
Film FractureKilling Them Softly isn't just a film about a robbery, but is also a metaphor-filled fable about the flaws of our capitalist...
Black Sheep ReviewsDominick seems less interested in plot and much more keen on criticizing the American government.
Total FilmTough, stylish, violent and studded with stars but like so many of its American gangsters, Killing Them Softly doesn't quit...
TelegraphBrad Pitt stars in a crime thriller that's mostly smart yet slips into occasional moments of violent crassness
The GuardianThis black comedy about unhappy assassins who have hit hard times is a compelling comment on economic bloodletting in the re...
Hollywood ReporterA tasty modern crime yarn with political overtones, Brad Pitt and an over-weaning sense of style.
FirstShowingI can say with certainty that I am always up for being immersed in Andrew Dominik's style, the way he shoots and his camera ...
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Partial Film Information
Director: Andrew Dominik
Writer: Andrew Dominik
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Cast: Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Sam Rockwell
Release: November 19, 2012
Writer: Andrew Dominik
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Cast: Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Sam Rockwell
Release: November 19, 2012
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