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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 29 Nov 2012

While he may have captured something of outlaw culture in Killing Them Softly, Dominik's portrait of America seems myopic, cynical and coldblooded…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 29 Nov 2012

A black comedy at its most stygian, a parade of sad-sacks, no-hopers, sellouts, screw-ups and basket cases…

Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 29 Nov 2012

A character-driven gangster drama exposing the shadow side of America as nothing more than a business ruled by money, power, and violence…

Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 29 Nov 2012

The Louisiana locations are appropriately cruddy, and the occasional scenes of violence are frightening, visceral, and beautifully photographed…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 29 Nov 2012

As with his previous film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Dominik's ideas get the better of his creative handiwork…

Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 29 Nov 2012

Even some who generally enjoy gangster films may be turned off by this one, with its focus on dialogue over action and its harsh style…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 29 Nov 2012

This is a deliberately chilly and nerve-wracking experience, and one of the bleakest portraits of American society seen on-screen in the last…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 29 Nov 2012

Its characters may be desperate low-lifes, but Dominik's bold filmmaking sends you out of the theater on an exhilarating high…

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By Rafer Guzman (1,080) for Newsday (2,345) on 29 Nov 2012

Dominik turns this potentially gritty crime flick into a soggy political metaphor for the 2008 financial crisis…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for Movieline (883) on 29 Nov 2012

If gangsterism is just capitalism in a more raw form, then Jackie is the creature best suited for this world…

Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 29 Nov 2012

Can be heavy-handed at times, but it's still moodily effective…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 29 Nov 2012

a clever-enough idea - ratty criminal enterprise as the American economy in miniature - but the movie hammers its theme home, repeatedly…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 29 Nov 2012

Murder is just another day at the office for corporate America, and the film hammers that theme home with diminishing returns…

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By Erick Weber (123) for NECN (109) on 29 Nov 2012

Everything about the loaded-with-lowlives crime flick is elongated, extended to the very precipice of its expiration date…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 29 Nov 2012

For a genre film, Killing Them Softly goes to an awfully strange, none-too-subtle place, but the choice to move the '08 election from background…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 29 Nov 2012

Killing Them Softly isn't anything major. But it's a pungent minor film only vaguely resembling the one The Weinstein Co…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 29 Nov 2012

The charisma of such actors as Gandolfini, Pitt, Liotta and Jenkins depends largely on their screen presences and our memories of them in better…

Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

By Roger Moore (6,008) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 29 Nov 2012

Pitt dials this hitman down a few notches, keeping the guy as realistic as the movie around him…

Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 29 Nov 2012

While McNairy and Mendelsohn are solid but almost too showy, Liotta, Jenkins, Sam Shepard and a chewy supporting cast beautifully fill in the…

Review of Killing Them Softly (2012)

By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 29 Nov 2012

In spite of the golden presence of Brad Pitt as the killer, a level-headed professional named Jackie Cogan, the movie has an agreeably scuzzy,…

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