Comments on: Cannes Review: Brilliant & Angry ‘Killing Them Softly’ Is The Anti-Thriller For Our Times https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-20120522/ Sun, 22 May 2016 03:59:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Dragoon173 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-20120522/#comment-117728 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:59:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-251915/#comment-117728 Direct from the Karl Marx/Vladimir Ulyanov/Occupy (anyone heard from them lately?) School of "Cinema Verite." This "critic" has been working around TinselTown way too long. He really needs to take a break from it all and get a life on THIS planet.

]]> By: sal https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-20120522/#comment-117729 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:59:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-251915/#comment-117729 Is this reviewer joking? No, he's Keving Jagernauth-ing. It's when the joke is unintentional.
A truly misguided reviewer if ever there was one.

]]> By: Tal https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-20120522/#comment-117730 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:59:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-251915/#comment-117730 I think you saw a different film than I did!!

]]> By: Andreas https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-20120522/#comment-117731 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:59:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-251915/#comment-117731 Great review!!! Couldn't agree more and couldn't say less. Saw it this am and just might go again tonight!

]]> By: Andreas https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-20120522/#comment-117732 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:59:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-251915/#comment-117732 Great review!!! Couldn't agree more and couldn't say less. Saw it this am and just might go again tonight!

]]> By: JD V https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-20120522/#comment-117733 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:59:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-251915/#comment-117733 Sorry, a little too much trendy, cynical "All politicians are the same! They're all bullshit! Obama is no different from McCain / Romney / anybody else! He's bullshit! His promises are all bullshit!" poseur nonsense in this review. Also: impressive you got through the entire thing without once acknowledging that the film is based on a 1973 book by George V. Higgins, who also wrote "The Friends Of Eddie Coyle".

]]> By: Uhhhh. https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-20120522/#comment-117734 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:59:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-251915/#comment-117734 So, do you think you should take out the part about the acidic closing line being best experienced cold? How can I, having read this, not anticipate the closing line? I may not know what it is, but I know it's coming.

I mean, I shouldn't read reviews if I don't want spoilers, but I don't think you should suggest that other reviewers shouldn't spoil it while sorta spoiling it yourself, right?

]]> By: Rachel https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-20120522/#comment-117735 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:59:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-251915/#comment-117735 why is this mainly plot, tell us about the performances

]]> By: Bonnie https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-20120522/#comment-117736 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:59:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-251915/#comment-117736 Allegory, you mean. In your third paragraph, first sentence, directly after the parenthetical: replace "metaphor" with "allegory."

]]> By: Athena https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-20120522/#comment-117737 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:59:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-251915/#comment-117737 I respectfully disagree however, with the notion that those at the bottom of the rung share as much blame as those at the top…how?. If you mean low to middle income Americans deigning to buy a home that they were assured they could afford because they could refinance and then were screwed when the crash of 2008 hit (something that hadn't happened in over 70 years)…did you see that coming?. To paraphrase Bill Black, this is how fraud works: Wall Street, the mortgage companies, gain your trust (why shouldn't you trust them, right?)…they gain your trust then they defraud you. The bottom rung are are not to blame. Everyone has the right to buy a home, that's the American dream. What we didn't count on was being lied to and swindled. The fault is Wall Street and the government and NO ONE ELSE. I do agree about Obama's false promises. Obama doesn't give a flying fuck in a rolling donut about ANYONE who isn't the Wall Street 1%. I hope this film (and others like it) bring as much awareness as possible.

]]> By: wasabi https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-20120522/#comment-117738 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:59:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-251915/#comment-117738 the new drive?

]]> By: Athena https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-20120522/#comment-117739 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:59:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-251915/#comment-117739 Awesome review…the way the opening scene is described, well, that gave me chills right there. I'm sold, can't wait to see this one.

]]> By: Omar https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-20120522/#comment-117740 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:59:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-251915/#comment-117740 Any wide release dates on this one ? Can't wait .

]]> By: Duddi https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-20120522/#comment-117741 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:59:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-251915/#comment-117741 Thnx !!! This really helped, had no idea how this would come out, after they left an hour or so on cutting room, with producers insist (originally it was supposed to be around 140 min, but it was reduced to 90 min).

]]> By: Lenny https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-20120522/#comment-117742 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:59:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-251915/#comment-117742 Great review, Kevin. Really looking forward to this one.

]]> By: Christian https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-20120522/#comment-117743 Sun, 22 May 2016 03:59:34 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/cannes-review-brilliant-angry-killing-them-softly-is-the-anti-thriller-for-our-times-251915/#comment-117743 As predicted. Thanks!

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