Killing Them Softly
In America you're on your own.
In America you're on your own.
Crime, Thriller
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2012
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Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.
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Details
Runtime:
97 min
Release date:
30 Jul 2012
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$15,000,000
Revenue:
$37,930,465
Awards:
3 wins & 9 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
'Killing Them Softly' collapses under the crushing weight of the director's narcissism.
– Richard Roeper,
Richard Roeper.com,
4 Dec 2012
rotten:
The anvils of obviousness rain down so hard and fast in New Zealand-born/Australian-based director Andrew Dominik's meditation on low-rent crime and American decline, that it might as well be a Coyote-Road Runner cartoon
– Cary Darling,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com,
3 Dec 2012
fresh:
Like its source material, the movie is stylish, profane, intelligent, and eminently diverting. But as much as it is a delight that Dominik has disinterred Higgins's work, it is a mild disappointment that the result is not more substantial.
– Christopher Orr,
The Atlantic,
30 Nov 2012
fresh:
Trading in pleasures of a deliberately rarefied sort, writer-director Andrew Dominik's talky, character-rich genre piece largely short-circuits thrills to sketch a grimly funny portrait of thugs taking care of business, in every rotten sense of the word.
– Justin Chang,
Variety,
30 Nov 2012
fresh:
Ultimately, as crafted as Killing Them Softly is, it's less satisfying than either The Sopranos or Goodfellas. Still, Dominik and his cast cruise some very mean streets indeed.
– Lisa Kennedy,
Denver Post,
30 Nov 2012