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By Bruce Demara (410) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 09 Aug 2012

If y'all like your comedy with a Lone Star drawl and as black as Texas tea, then by all means tuck right into Killer Joe…

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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 09 Aug 2012

Killer Joe, which is peppered with a number of palpably striking sequences, builds to an absolutely enthralling (and purposefully over-the-top)…

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By Adam Nayman (350) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 09 Aug 2012

Credit goes to the actors (especially Gershon) for giving almost as good as they get in seriously demanding roles, and to Friedkin for having…

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By Liz Braun (961) for Jam! Movies (2,396) on 09 Aug 2012

Mostly makes you want to go home and have a shower…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 08 Aug 2012

Killer Joe is twisted pulp, and the actors chew on it bravely, boldly, and with varying degrees of success…

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By Jake Mulligan (34) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 08 Aug 2012

Friedkin directs; his taste for sadism has never been personified better than in McConaughey's unassuming-but-dangerous drawl…

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By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 08 Aug 2012

Friedkin's pretty shrewd himself, in how he teases out the humor without indulging Letts' immature glibness, and how he sidesteps Bible Belt…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 08 Aug 2012

A gleeful and unapologetic descent into delicious decadence, Killer Joe is proud of what it is and never tries to be something it isn't…

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By Marcdoyle (398) on 08 Aug 2012

It's by far the best B-movie, film noir, grindhouse-style film I've seen in a long time…

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By Ian Buckwalter (369) for The Washingtonian (21) on 05 Aug 2012

Friedkin plays a trick that might be mean if it wasn't so fascinating to see him pull off, blending laugh-out-loud humor with absolutely repulsive…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for New Yorker (1,403) on 05 Aug 2012

Even if you like your movies sick and black, as many people do, it's hard to miss the irony: in the very act of trying to intensify his Southern…

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By Andrea Chase (1,182) for Killer Movie Reviews (1,182) on 02 Aug 2012

It's the sort of funny that encompasses both definitions of the word and that is watched, as often as not, with clenched teeth and the temptation…

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By Jeanne Kaplan (738) for Kaplan vs. Kaplan (1,174) on 02 Aug 2012

Killer Joe is diabolically dark, and immensely entertaining…

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By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 02 Aug 2012

It's ostensibly a Southern-fried comedy of terrors, but what little humor the film evinces almost immediately lodges in your windpipe like…

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By Mark Jenkins (515) for Washington Post (9,851) on 02 Aug 2012

The action and dialogue find the same squalid level in time for the climactic scene, the cruel humiliation of a central character…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 01 Aug 2012

[T]here is no way to say it without employing a pun -- it leaves a truly bad taste…

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By Betsy Sharkey (695) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 01 Aug 2012

By far the film's deadliest weapon is McConaughey…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 01 Aug 2012

The hardest thing to describe is tone, but it's the thing that most sets Killer Joe apart and makes it one of the most interesting and satisfying…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 01 Aug 2012

The bone-crunchingly violent film has luridly entertaining moments…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 01 Aug 2012

Intriguing, if you can take the gore and nastiness that earned it the NC-17 rating...[and] there are compensations, not least McConaughey's…

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