Ultraviolence, orgies and elevators full of ruby-red blood all come to small screens this summer as Bravo! airs the most comprehensive Stanley Kubrick retrospective to appear on TV in North America. The fact that the films are all running uncut and ...read the complete Killing movie review at eye WEEKLY (Jason Anderson)
filmtext.com
Fünf Jahre Knast, das ist kein Pappenstiel. Um es mit den Worten unserer Väter auszudrücken. Die hat Johnny jetzt hinter sich. Fünf Jahre Alcatraz - dafür wirkt er erstaunlich entspannt. Aber in Anbetracht seiner Pläne ist das angemessen und ...read the complete Killing movie review at filmtext.com
Cinepassion.org
Unlike Fuller's or Aldrich's, Stanley Kubrick's pulp is juiceless, not so much the barbarian's abandon as the wiseass' smirk, dutifully hidden behind newsreel grayness and lateral camera sprawls. The plot is a perfect-crime-goes-bust mold, built upon a ...read the complete Killing movie review at Cinepassion.org
Xi-online (Jeroen Vormeer)
Characteristically Kubrick in both its mechanistic coldness and its vision of human endeavour undone by greed and deceit, this noir-ish heist movie is nevertheless far more satisfying than most of his later work, due both to a lack of bombastic ...read the complete Killing movie review at Xi-online (Jeroen Vormeer)