Review of Destroyer (2018) by Peter Bradshaw for The Guardian — 24 Jan 2019
Destroyer reverses the gender polarity and ethos of Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant: with Ferrara, the cop is the abuser and with Kusama the cop is the abused, but both are cops who have descended into hell and whose compulsive, addictive behaviour may be an effort to escape it – or to enter further into hell in an attempt to cauterise the pain.
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This review of Destroyer (2018) was written by Peter Bradshaw and published by The Guardian on 24 Jan 2019.
Destroyer has generally received mixed reviews.
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