- Starring: Ben Foster, Dane DeHaan, Daniel Radcliffe, David Cross, Elizabeth Olsen, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael C. Hall
- Summary: A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) and William Burroughs (Ben Foster).
- Director: John Krokidas
- Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Thriller, Romance
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 13
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Mixed: 8 out of 13
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Negative: 0 out of 13
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90Mr. Krokidas deftly shows how the ambition to write is entangled with other impulses.
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87It transcends the usual biopic limitations to tell a specific story about some well-known people with larger, universal implications.
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80Though it begins as a murder-mystery, Kill Your Darlings may be best described as an intellectual moral maze, a story perfectly of its time and yet one that still resonates today.
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60Unlike Walter Salles’s recent adaptation of On The Road, which embraced the Beat philosophy with a wide and credulous grin, Kill Your Darlings is inquisitive about the movement’s worth, and the genius of its characters is never assumed.
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58Well shot and well made, Kill Your Darlings is a very competently constructed effort on a whole, but there’s an emptiness and familiarity at its core that it cannot transcend.
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50Something is missing here, like a clear perspective.
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40There’s a heart here, but with all the superficial noise, it’s hard to hear it beating.
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