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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for New York Times (5,786) on 25 Jul 2012

Mr…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 25 Jul 2012

Friedkin's still got it - the it being his ability to infuse every frame of the film with powerful ambiguity and doubt, and also his ability…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 25 Jul 2012

What's most notable about this aggressively cynical project is how much talent it wastes…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for ScreenCrush (954) on 24 Jul 2012

No one will ever accuse William Friedkin of mellowing with age…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 24 Jul 2012

Killer Joe throws down a dare by expecting its audience to be the cool connoisseurs of the story's comic outrageousness, then rubbing viewers…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 24 Jul 2012

Friedkin unleashes a strong cast on this darkly funny and violent tale of weak-minded people who think they're smarter than they are…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 24 Jul 2012

This is not some nostalgia-soaked throwback to the noir of old, but a rude, shit-kicking thriller that co-opts - and merrily defiles - a classic…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 23 Jul 2012

When this sick, ludicrous cocktail of sex, violence and mayhem was first unveiled a year ago at the Toronto International Film Festival, one…

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By Nick Pinkerton (448) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Jul 2012

Friedkin, a son of Chicago's working-class South Side who has swerved back and forth over the thin blue line of order and chaos throughout…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 23 Jul 2012

With an eye for gritty, shameless fun, Friedkin unleashes the play's guilty pleasure center…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Time Out (7,510) on 23 Jul 2012

It's McConaughey who is the real revelation: All Grim Reaper strut and cutthroat stare, he savors each of Letts's vividly ghoulish lines…

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By Oliver Lyttelton (141) for The Playlist (3,871) on 22 Jul 2012

It won't change the face of cinema history, and it won't win any awards (it's too downright dirty for that), but it's furiously entertaining,…

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By Ed Gonzalez (1,102) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Jul 2012

It thrills in seeing dumb people getting their due in hyper-stylized displays of violence, and yet it never feels contemptuous of them…

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By Simon Foster (434) for Screen-Space (209) on 20 Jul 2012

Even when McConnaughey is not onscreen, it is a cracking piece of character-driven entertainment; when he is, it something greater again…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Variety (12,700) on 17 Jul 2012

The family that slays together pays together in Killer Joe, a nasty little Texas noir that transfers Tracy Letts' 1993 play from page to screen…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 17 Jul 2012

It is up to McConaughey's crooked cop to carry the picture: a sleek, loungingly casual loner whose hunger for violence, like his hunger for…

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By Heather Wixson (312) for Dread Central (388) on 06 Jul 2012

It's a bold, weirdly charming and violent look at the modern family unit that makes for one of the most thought-provoking cinematic endeavors…

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By Charlie Lyne (195) for Ultra Culture (187) on 05 Jul 2012

To pick out any one transgression in Killer Joe is to minimise its overall achievement in crafting one of the least affable movies in recent memory…

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By Jason Solomons (101) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 30 Jun 2012

It revels in evil and lacks any sprightliness that might have redeemed its twisted characters, all of whom are loathsome and stupid…

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By Shaun Munro (472) for What Culture (594) on 28 Jun 2012

Matthew McConaughey steals the show with a ferocious, transformative performance worthy of awards attention, and Friedkin restores his stature…

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