The Killer Inside Me
IFC Films | Release Date: June 18, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
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15
Mixed:
14
Negative:
4
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60
The GuardianPeter BradshawJul 27, 2014
The Killer Inside Me is a particular distillation of male hate, as practised by repulsive and inadequate individuals who have been encouraged to see themselves as essentially decent by virtue of the trappings of authority in which they have wrapped themselves. And Winterbottom is tearing off the mask. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierJul 27, 2014
Affleck is playing someone split down the middle, but we're stuck seeing only one side of him. Read full review
55
MovielineStephanie ZacharekJul 27, 2014
Winterbottom’s version goes too far. Read full review
50
NPRScott TobiasJul 27, 2014
A streamlined script might have helped. Curran and Winterbottom lose themselves in the soupy business of union shenanigans, an internal investigation and Lou's intervention in a troubled boy's life, but the added complications -- and the talk, talk, talk they require -- take away from the disquieting core of Thompson's story. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJul 27, 2014
Beyond Affleck's, the performances here lack amplitude and dramatic impact. Read full review
50
VarietyTodd McCarthyJul 27, 2014
A film that should but doesn't get under your skin and give you the creeps. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJul 27, 2014
Good-looking but not very effective adaptation of the seedy classic by "Grifters" author Jim Thompson. Read full review
50
Village VoiceJ. HobermanJul 27, 2014
This withholding actor's (Affleck) impish smile and mild, pale-eyed stare--not to mention the Clintonesque hoarseness with which he spins his convoluted lies--are sufficiently convincing to keep The Killer Inside Me from being just a steamy, stylish, punishing bloodbath. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy BurrJul 27, 2014
The film is crisply shot, expertly paced, solidly acted, and it gets a goose when Bill Pullman shows up in the late innings as a good-old-boy lawyer. (By contrast, it’s never convincingly explained what stake the union official played by Elias Koteas has in the drama.) All that’s missing is a reason. Read full review
50
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJul 27, 2014
Michael Winterbottom’s nasty and uneven adaptation of Jim Thompson’s surpassingly mean little crime novel. Read full review
40
Boxoffice MagazinePam GradyJul 27, 2014
Thompson's brutality and misogyny are on full display, but it is too slick, there is little suspense or energy, and the whole affair has a curiously embalmed quality. Read full review
40
The TelegraphSukhdev SandhuJul 27, 2014
[A] minor and distinctly unchilling fare. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith UhlichJul 27, 2014
Winterbottom’s inability to bring off this lurid stew of sex and violence is one problem; his (mis)direction of Affleck is another. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenJul 27, 2014
The Killer Inside Me is hardly uninteresting, and you get the sense that everyone involved tried really hard to pull off this difficult adaptation. But it would be impossible to view The Killer Inside Me as anything but a vast miscalculation. Read full review
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