Winter Kills

Name: Winter Kills
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Comedy
Released: May 11, 1979
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Belinda Bauer, Dorothy Malone, Eli Wallach, Jeff Bridges

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AVCO Embassy Pictures | Release Date: May 11, 1979 | R

Starring: Anthony Perkins, Belinda Bauer, Dorothy Malone, Eli Wallach, Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Ralph Meeker, Sterling Hayden, Tomas Milian, Toshirô Mifune

Summary: The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.

Director: William Richert

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 97 min

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RogerEbert.com Peter Sobczynski

It has not lost an iota of its power to shock, amuse, and simultaneously perplex viewers. If anything, it seems to have grown even bolder with age in its willingness to take on sacred cows in the craziest manner imaginable. Read full review

Brad Hanford

Even if you don’t go in with a conspiratorial mindset, one viewing of this riotously entertaining, chillingly perceptive film could leave you wondering if some larger force is at play, protecting the targets of this should-be New Hollywood classic by keeping it in the dark after all this time. Read full review

Keith Phipps

Winter Kills provides a perfect, absurd finale to the half-decade of post-Watergate paranoid thrillers that preceded it and compares favorably to the grand unified conspiracy-theory fictions that followed, such as Oliver Stone's JFK and James Ellroy's book American Tabloid. Read full review

Richard Brody

It may be a hectic, giddy, absurd movie—but, in its evocation of a conspiracy so logical that it is beyond belief, the film dramatizes the power of such an idea to attract true believers. Read full review

Janet Maslin

Winter Kills isn't exactly a comedy, but it's funny. And it isn't exactly serious, but it takes on the serious business of the Kennedy assassination. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Winter Kills is flawed and screwy and “out there” and the cast is mostly very old, never a recipe for box office success. It’s found its select audience over the decades on home video and streaming, with critics coming along and reviving interest in its bracing set pieces, big laughs and dark, uncomfortable chuckles. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

If there's a decent film lurking somewhere in Winter Kills, writer-director William Richert doesn't want anyone to see it in his Byzantine version of a presidential assassination conspiracy [from a book by Richard Condon]. Read full review

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