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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 25 Oct 2013

The cast, led by first among equals, Daniel Radcliffe, do a terrific job in giving life to their budding literary figures…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 24 Oct 2013

Director and co-writer John Krokidas doesn’t have a very fluent gift for period re-creation – everything seems stagy – and most of the…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 23 Oct 2013

The strong characters, and the performances that drive them, make Kill Your Darlings work…

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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Orange County Register (218) on 23 Oct 2013

This vibrant portrait of a legendary New York bohemia in the 1940s transcends its flaws by evoking genuine feeling for poets in their youth…

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By Tony Medley (1,109) for Tolucan Times (639) on 19 Oct 2013

In a movie about people that virtually nobody cares about today, director Krokidas has a style of quick cuts and time warping jumps that is…

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By Pete Hammond (936) for Movieline (883) on 18 Oct 2013

Coming of age movie about the Beat Generation…

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By Witney Seibold (272) for CraveOnline (813) on 18 Oct 2013

For a film that is about illicit sexuality, crime, revolutionary poetry, and copious drugs, it's weird that the film has no grit on it…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue.com (1,236) on 17 Oct 2013

While somewhat unfocused, the film captures the moral complexities of the period through smart portrayals from its cast…

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By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 17 Oct 2013

The movie is fundamentally a look at how Allen Ginsberg became Allen Ginsberg, so it's rife with the thrill of artistic discovery…

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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 17 Oct 2013

Kill Your Darlings presents a minor prelude to a major literary movement…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 17 Oct 2013

The only thing it really kills is about an hour and a half…

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By Bob Mondello (417) for NPR (1,713) on 17 Oct 2013

They flail and they thrash, and Krokidas' film is just like them — as jazz-inflected and freewheeling as the Beat poetry these guys were…

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By John Oursler (19) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 16 Oct 2013

The film works best when the characters' freewheeling creative process is channeled into Krokidas's filmmaking techniques, namely through exhilarating…

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By Glenn Dunks (375) for Glenn Dunks (46) on 16 Oct 2013

For a film that goes out of its way time and time again to tell the audience that its protagonist was a pioneering wunderkind who helped revolutionise…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 16 Oct 2013

If anyone's doubted Radcliffe's ability to move into adult roles and leave Harry Potter behind him, this should convince…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 16 Oct 2013

As for Ginsberg himself: Should we be more impressed that Radcliffe so confidently portrays an actual icon, or that he banishes all memories…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 16 Oct 2013

Kill Your Darlings wants to be a young man’s movie, but it’s all “cinema du papa,” as the French New Wave used to call it…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 16 Oct 2013

The saving grace of Kill Your Darlings is its sordid romantic angle, a narrative thread that pulls the film away from wink-wink allusions and…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 16 Oct 2013

Sex, lies, betrayal and murder set among the gods of the Beat Generation…

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By Emma Dibdin (195) for Digital Spy (1,161) on 16 Oct 2013

Sharply scripted and led by a pair of bold, thrilling performances, Kill Your Darlings is a heady, histrionic, utterly captivating slice of…

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