We Need to Talk About Kevin

4.00
    We Need to Talk About Kevin
    2011

    Synopsis

    After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.

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    Cast

    • Tilda SwintonEva Khatchadourian
    • John C. ReillyFranklin Khatchadourian
    • Ezra MillerKevin Khatchadourian, Teenager
    • Jasper NewellKevin Khatchadourian, 6-8 Years
    • Rock DuerKevin Khatchadourian, Toddler
    • Ashley GerasimovichCelia Khatchadourian
    • Siobhan Fallon HoganWanda
    • Alex ManetteColin
    • Kenneth FranklinSoweto
    • Leslie LylesSmash Lady

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Time Out

      The movie toggles between two periods-before and after a catastrophe-and, were it not for Swinton's magnetism, it would be unbearable. Instead, you'll want to stay for the wallop.
    • 90

      Salon

      There are so many great things happening on almost every level of this movie, from Swinton's haunting, magnetic and tremendously vulnerable performance, which is absolutely free of condescension to the suburban American wife-ness of her character, to the many unsettling individual moments.
    • 90

      Variety

      An exquisitely realized adaptation of Lionel Shriver's bestselling novel. In a rigorously subtle performance as a woman coping with the horrific damage wrought by her psychopathic son, Tilda Swinton anchors the dialogue-light film with an expressiveness that matches her star turn in "I Am Love."
    • 80

      Empire

      A triumph for Ramsay anchored by terrific performances. Guaranteed to haunt you for days, and possibly prompt a rethink on your position on parenthood.
    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      This is, in a way, a real horror film about everyday things and a disconnected family.
    • 67

      Entertainment Weekly

      The movie is creepy, but it has no texture or depth. It's like "The Omen" directed by Miranda July.
    • 63

      The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

      Ezra Miller's sneering, absurdly precocious evil-child performance makes him just another bad-seed horror villain.
    • 50

      Village Voice

      By treating Kevin's evil as a mystery to be solved, Ramsay only succeeds in making what was once allusive banal.

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