Kill the Poor

Name: Kill the Poor
Genre: Drama
Released: January 6, 2006
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 52

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IFC Films | Release Date: January 6, 2006

Summary: Kill the Poor is a rueful and darkly comic tale about the quest to achieve the American Dream, on the Urban frontier. (IFC Films)

Director: Alan Taylor

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 85 min

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David Rooney

Result hovers a little uncertainly between dark comedy and urban drama, but remains compelling thanks to its gritty narrative texture, nervous energy and loose, jumpy structure, which fit well with the DV-shot production's no-frills approach. Read full review

Tasha Robinson

Taylor makes the most of his tiny budget with creative editing and shooting, though his New York City is anemic, narrow, and underpopulated, and his constant repetition of the same damn 60 seconds of music becomes excruciating. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

If you know there's so such place as Avenue E in the East Village, or if you've ever taken a bath in your kitchen, this one's for you. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Sort of a poor man's "Rent" - minus the music and the AIDS - and much blander than the title would have you expect. Read full review

Benjamin Strong

Shot on a modest DV budget, Kill the Poor isn't pretty, but it's a balanced look at the dirty politics of gentrification. Read full review

Nathan Lee

There's potential here for an incendiary riff on gentrification and its discontents, but the result is only lukewarm. While the ensemble is as pungent as its assorted clichés will permit, the cruddy video photography and haphazard organization of plot blunt the wry thrust of the material. Read full review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

As an overwrought, overacted drama, Kill the Poor is negligible. Read full review

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Sep 11, 2006

Bad, nothing above or below that.

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