Fresh
Imagine Terrence Malick's Badlands done as black comedy, with the rural atmosphere of Psycho and dialogue rubbed against flint.
Jack Mathews, Los Angeles Times
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Kiss or Kill
Overview
Two lovers, Nikki and Al, have a scam in which Nikki allows herself to be picked up by older men, drugs them, and, with Al's help, robs them. After accidentally killing one of her victims with an overdose, Nikki and Al are on the run.
Director and cast
- Bill Bennett Director
- Matt Day as Al Fletcher
- Frances O'Connor as Nikki Davies
- Chris Haywood as Detective Hummer
- Andrew S. Gilbert as Detective Crean
- Tiffany Peters as Young Nikki
- Syd Brisbane as Nikki's Father
- Julie Sobotta as Nikki's Mother
- Geoff Revell as Paul Nathan
- Barry Langrishe as Zipper Doyle
- Eliza Lovell as Felicity
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
84%
Tomatometer
Fresh
If this scenario sounds like stock film-noir plotting, Bill Bennett ... makes something utterly fresh and, for all its scent of evil, invigorating out of it.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Fresh
I've seen countless road movies, but this one felt different, as if it had an unbalanced flywheel.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
The picture's velocity, style, irreverence, unexpected playful humor and new take on the noir genre make it worth a look.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
Really does feel original and authentically creepy.
Tom Keogh, Film.com
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