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You Kill Me
IFC Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for language and some violence
Starring
Ben Kingsley,
Téa Leoni,
Luke Wilson,
Philip Baker Hall,
Dennis Farina,
and
Bill Pullman
This street-smart mob comedy is the story of what happens when two mismatched people find a common calling. (IFC Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Christopher Markus
Stephen McFeely
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
John Dahl
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: June 22, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
92 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Frank (Ben Kingsley) meets Laurel (Tea Leoni), a woman who has been around the block a time or 200, and she likes Frank's directness, while he likes her unflappability. This is one of the greatest screwball relationships in years.

78
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
Cuddlier and more charming, this alcoholic-hitman comedy isn’t your typical Dahl noir (The Last Seduction, Red Rock West), but it is offbeat, lovably deadpan, and just tart enough.

75
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
You Kill Me kills you softly with its smiles.

75
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
It's a predictable but acridly pleasant 12-step bonbon: self-help noir.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
A deviously delightful entertainment.

75
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The acting is fine -- and so is the moody-blues direction -- but, given the subject matter, the movie should be blacker and more disturbing.

75
USA Today
Scott Bowles
Surely there aren't many emotionally fragile mobster stories left in the Hollywood arsenal. But at least Kill is a pretty good shot with the laughs.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Leoni is one of the truly distinctive comic actresses we have in the movies today, a tough broad with murderously effective timing and phrasing.

75
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Director John Dahl keeps a firm hand on Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely's razor-sharp hit-man-in-rehab comedy, which mines the same dark vein as "Gross Pointe Blank"(1997) and "Matador"(2005), and the payoff is both slily funny and startlingly fresh.

75
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
It's the best role in years for Leoni, but You Kill Me really belongs to Kingsley, whose character's deadpan reactions to his new environment are priceless. He really kills.

75
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Dahl found the right actors for every part - Bill Pullman as the cynical Realtor hired to look after Frank, Luke Wilson as the gay AA member assigned as Frank's sponsor, and the always amusing Dennis Farina as Irish mobster Edward O'Leary.

70
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Straight-up ridiculous, but it's also consistently funny and nicely played by a well-complemented cast that finds its collective groove and never misses a beat.

70
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Even if you can't accept all the movie's left curves, you might still be amused.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
We've seen the inner lives of hit men and mobsters rendered innumerably in recent years on film and television, but You Kill Me does it in a satisfyingly comedic way, loaded with easily identifiable idiosyncrasies.

70
Variety
Ronnie Scheib
With an eclectic mix of strong-minded thesps all pulling in slightly different directions, this shape-shifting genre hybrid successfully commingles 12-step therapy, romantic comedy and hit-man thriller.

70
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Its razor-sharp script by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and the hilariously deadpan comic performances by Ben Kingsley and Tea Leoni make it a consistent pleasure.

70
Film Threat
Rick Kisonak
In other hands with another cast, You Kill Me might easily have proven just another modest production indulging in mob violence and postmodern irony. There certainly is no shortage of those. Dahl’s latest, however, is something more than a modest production. It’s a small wonder.

70
Time
Richard Schickel
I don't want to oversell You Kill Me. It is not going to leave you breathless with laughter. But I don't want to undersell it either. For an hour and a half it exerts its own preposterous reality, making you believe it -- and like it.

67
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Staff (Not credited)
The main pleasure lies in watching a cast filled with fine character actors like Kingsley, Farina, Hall, and Bill Pullman work their way around the salty, noir-inflected dialogue. It's just unfortunate that those lines add up to such piffle.

63
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Leoni's presence adds a jolt of energy to a movie that, while not necessarily worth going out of your way for, turns out to be a lot more clever than it initially appears.

50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Dahl has directed half a dozen sardonic noir movies, dating back to "Kill Me Again" in 1989, so he should have been the ideal choice for this material. But even he can't make chicken salad from a pile of beaks, bones and claws.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
You Kill Me is not so much a bad film as one filled with missed potential and marked by the seams of compromise.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
You Kill Me is pretty light, but it's well made, and within the built-in limitations of its story -- a hit man goes to Alcoholics Anonymous -- it's fairly pleasing.

25
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Inert dud of a hitmen-are-people-too comedy.

20
Village Voice
Scott Foundas
The past decade has been less kind to Dahl, and though his latest, called You Kill Me, has the outward appearance of a return to form, it may in fact be the worst thing he's ever done--an inert, tone-deaf mélange of "The Sopranos" and "Six Feet Under."


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