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    The Killer Inside Me

    R2010 · Thriller · 1h 48m

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  1. Jun 23, 2010 · Based on the novel by. Jim Thompson. What we desire is not a happy ending, so much as closure. That often means simply that a film knows what it thinks about itself. “The Killer Inside Me” is expert filmmaking based on a frightening performance, but it presents us with a character who remains a vast empty lonely cold space.

  2. The Killer Inside Me is stylish and ... 2022 Full Review Jason Best Movie Talk The prolific Winterbottom has got closer than most to the bleak spirit of his film's source - the 1952 novel by pulp ...

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    • Casey Affleck
  3. Jun 25, 2010 · Jim Emerson June 25, 2010. Tweet. Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of Jim Thompson's "The Killer Inside Me" is one of the deepest, darkest films noir ever made -- an unflinchingly nasty, nihilistic piece of work that pulls no punches, literally or figuratively. This is what noir is all about: facing the worst possibilities of human nature, a ...

  4. A more creative director could have conveyed the same amount of brutality in a much less overtly graphic way. As it stands, the scene is sadistic for sadism's sake. As is the entire movie. Affleck's character is a blank slate, not helped in the least by his mumbly performance.

  5. Full Review | Jan 21, 2011. J. R. Jones Chicago Reader. TOP CRITIC. This adaptation of Thompson's 1952 novel about a cunning, psychotic sheriff's deputy in a small Texas town locates the killer ...

  6. Jun 18, 2010 · But when the job brings him face to face with a gorgeous prostitute (Jessica Alba) on the edge of town, Ford's fragile world cracks - unbridling his own dark urges. [IFC Films] Crime. Drama. Mystery. Thriller. Directed By: Michael Winterbottom. Written By: John Curran, Jim Thompson.

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  8. Jan 26, 2010 · “The Killer Inside Me” is a faithful but only partly satisfying adaptation of Jim Thompson’s insidiously great 1952 pulp crime novel. Making his first fully American dramatic feature ...

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