Synopsis
Two teenage assassins accept what they think will be a quick-and-easy job, until an unexpected target throws them off their plan.
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Cast
- Saoirse RonanDaisy
- Alexis BledelViolet
- James GandolfiniMichael
- Marianne Jean-BaptisteIris
- Danny TrejoRuss
- Tatiana MaslanyApril
- Lynda GravattDolores
- Cody H. CarolinBarbie Sunday
- John VentimigliaMan #1
- Stu 'Large' RileyMan #2
Recommendations
- 70
The Hollywood Reporter
It’s a film that doesn’t always work but when it does you almost hear an audible click. Violet & Daisy has its share of these ah-ha moments. - 63
Slant Magazine
A twisted, spirited exercise in stark juxtaposition, a grindhouse fairy tale of sorts that pairs the sugary sweet with the nastily violent. - 60
Village Voice
The key relationships are well drawn, if not especially revealing of anything human, and director Fletcher sometimes dares some welcome absurdity. But if you've seen movies built from the same parts as this one, you'll likely find this too familiar—but energetic, well-acted, and distinguished by artfully artless chatter. - 50
Variety
Violet & Daisy feels radically disconnected from recognizable human behavior. - 50
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Fletcher and his players never quite hit on a tone that works. Fantastical dream sequences and side trips to the store to get “more bullets” never quite rise to the level of wry commentary. This just isn’t as cute and funny as Fletcher seems to think it is. - 42
The A.V. Club
Geoffrey Fletcher’s directorial debut, Violet & Daisy, has a lot of arch dialogue and very little depth. Talky and artificial, it moves like a sort of lobotomized Hal Hartley movie; it has plenty of Hartley-esque rhetorical devices — theatrical speech patterns, naïve characters, jokey plotting — but lacks Hartley’s sense of curiosity or engagement with the real world. - 40
Time Out
Deserves some kind of Bizarro World Robert Altman Independent Spirit Award for the Best Ensemble in the Least Interesting Movie. - 40
New York Daily News
Gandolfini scoops up another chance to show off the gentleness he left at home during six seasons of “The Sopranos.”
