The Things You Kill

Name: The Things You Kill
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: November 14, 2025
Duration: 114 min
Rating: 81

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Cineverse | Release Date: November 14, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: Haunted by the suspicious death of his ailing mother, a university professor coerces his enigmatic gardener to execute a cold-blooded act of vengeance.

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 114 min

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IndieWire Ryan Lattanzio

Jan 31, 2025

This film is about the contagious power of storytelling — which includes lying and self-deception — and what a potentially lethal device it can be in the wrong or even right hands. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Nov 13, 2025

Debts to Luis Buñuel and David Lynch are obvious, but The Things You Kill has its own way of getting inside its protagonist’s head space — and yours. Read full review

Barry Hertz

Mar 18, 2026

In its bold aesthetic courage and rigid thematic spine, Khatami’s movie is a full-body experience that leaves you fully alive. Read full review

The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Jan 25, 2025

A quiet and formally rigorous portrait of a paternalistic society, the crimes it breeds, and the fury, shame, regret, and self-loathing that follows. Read full review

Jacob Oller

Jan 31, 2025

Impotence and violence, two terrifying poles of threatened masculinity, rage throughout The Things You Kill, while its women more readily accept uncomfortable complexities. Read full review

IONCINEMA.com Nicholas Bell

Nov 13, 2025

Dedicating the film to his sisters, Khatami dives into the toxic attachment styles fostered and reinforced through repressive gender roles in a traditionally heteropatriarchal culture, where the absorption of oppression cements endless intergenerational trauma. But Khatami explores the aftermath of a reckoning, the consequences of which prove to be significant. Read full review

The Playlist Brian Farvour

Feb 3, 2025

It’s difficult to classify The Things You Kill properly, a film drifting into the revenge genre as much as it possesses an undeniable overtone of mystery, simultaneously knocking on the door of a slight psychological element. Read full review

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