Kill Your Friends

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Kill Your Friends

Released Apr 1, 2016

1h 43m

Comedy

Mystery & Thriller

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In the late 1990s, a drug-addled nihilist (Nicholas Hoult) resorts to murder to climb the ladder of the London music industry.

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Kill Your Friends takes futile stabs at black comedy, all strangled by a glut of tonal jumbles, bad casting, and unremittingly unlikable characters.

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Nick Schager

Film Journal International

Mistakenly thinks a lot of profanity, ugliness and bloodshed [...] are, in and of themselves, enough to sustain a satire about showbiz ruthlessness.

Apr 1, 2016

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Christy Lemire

RogerEbert.com

Everyone is horrible all the time-so when they do horrible things to each other, the result is a chuckle rather than a vicious bite. The music business is cutthroat, we get it.

Rated: 2/4

Apr 1, 2016

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Adam Graham

Detroit News

"Kill Your Friends" goes to some ugly places, but it keeps a sturdy sense of rhythm.

Rated: B-

Apr 1, 2016

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

A thankless experience that doesn't have much to say beyond the way it chooses to communicate its message.

Rated: 2/4

Apr 18, 2022

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Dan Stubbs

NME (New Musical Express)

It sounds a bit bleak, but it's not, thanks to pacey storytelling from first-time director Owen Harris and a zippy script from John Niven.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 8, 2021

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Craig Schroeder

Battleship Pretension

Kill Your Friends has its moments, but in the end what's the point? It's all Blur and Oasis signifying nothing.

Jan 7, 2021

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Milly O

Really enjoyed this, funny, entertaining, great acting and cast. Watch this!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/27/23

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Audience Member

I know they always say the books better than the movie. However it looks like the producers, directors, casting agents and so on took the book and wiped their behinds without to make this movie. Despite the film being horribly cast, and the acting being abysmal. The films missing key scenes. I don't know maybe I made the mistake of reading the book first, fuck knows how John Niven feels after seeming his frankly amazing book turn into this crap fest.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Audience Member

Quite possibly the worst movie I have ever seen. Don't waste your time on this violent, hate filled, hot mess. If I had a choice of watching this movie or staring at the wall, I would gladly stare at the wall for 90 Minutes. Niven is a talentless writer and I would not waste my time with anything he writes.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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ariel c

Rubbish, boring, patrick bateman wannabe, an empty film that wants to make an shallow critizism to the music industry, only to prove it knows nothing about it, while pretending to be a wannabe mash up of american psycho and trainspotting. Dark comedy? Not the best.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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gianmarco R

This film tells the story of a man who will do anything to achieve success, with this pretext starts a film full of murders, drugs and lies. All in all it's pretty cute and fun though quite predictable at times

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

07/12/19

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Audience Member

Hoult is incredible in this very dark comedy

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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Synopsis

In the late 1990s, a drug-addled nihilist (Nicholas Hoult) resorts to murder to climb the ladder of the London music industry.

Director: Owen Harris
Producer: Len Blavatnik, Gregor Cameron, Will Clarke
Screenwriter: John Niven
Distributor: Well Go USA
Production Co: Unigram, Altitude Film Entertainment
Genre: Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 1, 2016, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 22, 2016
Runtime: 1h 43m

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