Synopsis
Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.
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Cast
- Brad PittJackie Cogan
- Scoot McNairyFrankie
- Ben MendelsohnRussell
- James GandolfiniMickey
- Ray LiottaMarkie Trattman
- Richard JenkinsDriver
- Vincent CuratolaJohnny Amato
- Sam ShepardDillon
- SlaineKenny Gill
- Max CasellaBarry Caprio
Recommendations
- 100
The Guardian
This is an unrepentantly cynical take on the hope-and-change promised to the US in 2008; this year's election race makes it look even bleaker, an icily confident black comedy of continued disillusion. - 100
The Hollywood Reporter
The film is terribly smart in every respect, with ne'er-a-false note performances and superb craft work from top to bottom. - 100
The Playlist
Uncompromising and uncommercial, divisive and brave, Killing Them Softly bitterly boils at the state of the nation. - 70
Variety
A routine, even mundane crime story relayed in tones of world-weary fatigue, Killing Them Softly deglams the mob movie to coolly distinctive if rarely pulse-quickening effect. - 70
Boxoffice Magazine
Killing Them Softly tries hard - and succeeds - to be a film of the now with its political parallels right in front of us. Yet it's also an invisible companion to the dirty business at hand - and it is a business. - 70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
He's [Pitt] not particularly inventive - with his appraising eyes and a toothpick in his mouth, he's like Redford without the edge - but he uses his stardom cannily, to kill with softness. - 60
Total Film
Tough, stylish, violent and studded with stars – but like so many of its American gangsters, Killing Them Softly doesn't quite get the job done. - 60
Empire
A good, efficient crime thriller, let down by clunky social commentary but lifted by excellent performances, including perhaps Brad Pitt's recent best.
