Killer Joe

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Killer Joe

TV-MA

2011

1h 41m

Crime

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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A cop (Matthew McConaughey) who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer (Emile Hirsch) in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal sister (Juno Temple).

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Violent, darkly comic, and full of strong performances, Killer Joe proves William Friedkin hasn't lost his touch, even if the plot may be too lurid for some.

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Tom Long

Detroit News

08/31/2012

B

If you like your movies filled with twisted humor, sexual perversion, psychological intimidation and sudden violence, "Killer Joe" is the flick for you.

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Joe Williams

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

08/24/2012

2.5/4

Watching "Killer Joe" to the bitter end is like playing the Pick 6 lottery and getting three of the numbers right. You don't win anything, but you still think you're smarter than all those other idiots.

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Bill Goodykoontz

Arizona Republic

08/23/2012

4/5

[Friedkin] has retained his touch ... all these years later. And in Matthew McConaughey, he has the perfect vehicle for madness.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

10/03/2022

4/4

In Killer Joe, director William Friedkin reaches magnificent new lows as he descends into playwright Tracy Letts' world of southern-fried depravity, stupidity, sexuality, and possibly (almost certainly) madness.

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Mitchell Beaupre

Paste Magazine

09/23/2022

8.5/10

Killer Joe is pitched squarely as a rotted black comedy of errors, a cavalcade of one disaster after another from a bunch of fools tripping over themselves in the pursuit of the one thing that drives America: Greed

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Kip Mooney

College Movie Review

09/18/2021

B

You won't see anything else like it this year.

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ltbred1957 T

@RT30486055 1d

A very strange little movie, and thankfully I do not care for chicken legs, so that didn't put me of KFC! Loved the ambiguity of the ending.

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Zach H.

@zhutslar 2d

What the hell did I just watch? 😂

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Emily S

@SeriouslyRun 4d

NOW U KNOW UR HARD UP FOR MONEY WHEN U TAKE A ROLE LIKE THIS! Matthew McConaughey, you need your ass kicked for that chicken bone part. I don’t know what the hell y’all were thinking …this is disgusting 🤮 you might as well watch a woman and noodle and a gun. This has to be the worst movie I’ve seen in a long time and trust me I’ve seen really really shitty movies. Matthew McConaughey, you are not any good in this movie. The whole damn thing just needs to be burnt script everything jail jail. Lots of sexual almost pedophilia.. BURN THIS SCRIPT AND THE ORIGINAL! Take the movie off any streaming service!

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David H.

@rivrocks 4d

Amazing performances throughout. Juno's portrayal of Dottie is award-worthy. Ignore the sanctimonious cant of reviewers complaining of sex and violence in an NC-17 rated film. It's a fun watch and a brutal glimpse into one facet of generational poverty.

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Celeste F.

@Celeste61 5d

A wild ride! Excellent performances!

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Dikasip N

@RT77977104 6d

Dark, perfectly casted, great plot twist. A refreshing film compared to the slop DEI 20 something crap that is so pervasive now.

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Synopsis

A cop (Matthew McConaughey) who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer (Emile Hirsch) in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal sister (Juno Temple).

Director: William Friedkin
Producer: Nicolas Chartier, Scott Einbinder
Screenwriter: Tracy Letts
Production Co: Voltage Pictures, Ana Media
Rating: TV-MA, R (Graphic Nudity|Drug Use|Strong Disturbing Violence|Language|Sexuality)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 3, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $2.0M
Runtime: 1h 41m