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- Summary: Kill the Poor is a rueful and darkly comic tale about the quest to achieve the American Dream, on the Urban frontier. (IFC Films)
- Director: Alan Taylor
- Genre(s): Drama
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70Result hovers a little uncertainly between dark comedy and urban drama, but remains compelling thanks to its gritty narrative texture, nervous energy and loose, jumpy structure, which fit well with the DV-shot production's no-frills approach.
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There's potential here for an incendiary riff on gentrification and its discontents, but the result is only lukewarm. While the ensemble is as pungent as its assorted clichés will permit, the cruddy video photography and haphazard organization of plot blunt the wry thrust of the material.
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50Sort of a poor man's "Rent" - minus the music and the AIDS - and much blander than the title would have you expect.
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50Shot on a modest DV budget, Kill the Poor isn't pretty, but it's a balanced look at the dirty politics of gentrification.
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[Anonymous]3Bad, nothing above or below that.
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