Three dumb guys who think they're smart rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse. It's time when enforcer Jackie Cogan is hired to restore order.
25 December 1963, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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February 03, 2017
Director and screenplay writer Andrew Dominik leads his superb cast wonderfully through this dark drama, based on the 1974 novel Cogan's Trade.November 30, 2012
Like its source material, the movie is stylish, profane, intelligent, and eminently diverting. But as much as it is a delight that Dominik has disinterred Higgins's work, it is a mild disappointment that the result is not more substantial.November 30, 2012
Trading in pleasures of a deliberately rarefied sort, writer-director Andrew Dominik's talky, character-rich genre piece largely short-circuits thrills to sketch a grimly funny portrait of thugs taking care of business, in every rotten sense of the word.December 04, 2012
'Killing Them Softly' collapses under the crushing weight of the director's narcissism.November 30, 2012
Ultimately, as crafted as Killing Them Softly is, it's less satisfying than either The Sopranos or Goodfellas. Still, Dominik and his cast cruise some very mean streets indeed.June 14, 2015
This physical world is malleable, the means to disconcerting loveliness and expressive power... all under cover as a political parable in the form of an urgent, restless gangster picture. Rain falls, words tumble, violence erupts. Lyricism ensues.August 17, 2014
With such a strong cast, it's hard to imagine how things went so wrong.April 14, 2016
Never before has such a simple story with so few players been so deliberately hard to follow.May 10, 2016
That scheme is clearly visible though not particularly remarkable.August 11, 2014
f you find Dominik's unsubtle political statements too obvious, there is still plenty else going on in Killing Them Softly to marvel at with its familiar, and yet fresh, genre elements.December 03, 2012
The anvils of obviousness rain down so hard and fast in New Zealand-born/Australian-based director Andrew Dominik's meditation on low-rent crime and American decline, that it might as well be a Coyote-Road Runner cartoonNovember 30, 2012
The dialogue is sharp and so are the performances. Andrew Dominik directed this neo-noir in a low-key comic style that's alternately gritty and fancy. The gritty stuff is best.