Review of The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) by Anthony Lane for New Yorker — 22 Oct 2017
If “The Lobster” remains Lanthimos’s most vital work, that’s because it tempers the gloom with a mischievous play of wit. The Killing of a Sacred Deer, by contrast, is stubbornly hard to enjoy; there are jokes, but they make few dents in the programmatic rigor of the plot.
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This review of The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) was written by Anthony Lane and published by New Yorker on 22 Oct 2017.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer has generally received positive reviews.
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