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Kill Your Darlings
Directed by
John Krokidas
R
2013
1h 43m
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A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.
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Cast of Kill Your Darlings
Daniel Radcliffe
Allen Ginsberg
Dane DeHaan
Lucien Carr
Michael C. Hall
David Kammerer
Jack Huston
Jack Kerouac
Ben Foster
William Burroughs
David Cross
Louis Ginsberg
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Naomi Ginsberg
Elizabeth Olsen
Edie Parker
John Cullum
Professor Steeves
Brenda Wehle
Permissions Librarian
Erin Darke
Gwendolyn
Craig Chester
Businessman
Lenore Harris
DA Secretary
Mark Ethan
Campus Guard
Zach Appelman
Luke Detweiler
David Rasche
Dean
Quinlan Corbett
Billeting Officer
Dawn Newman
Jazz Singer
Clancy O'Connor
Tour Guide
Jon DeVries
Mr. Burroughs
Leslie Meisel
Edith Cohen
Sarah Hollis
Harlem Club Patron
Nicole Signore
Page
Olen Holm
Sailor
Michael Cavadias
Ray Conklin
Kyra Sedgwick
Marian Carr (uncredited)
Laura Obiols
Kristina Laakson (uncredited)
Colin Michael Walker
Columbia Classmate (uncredited)
Kevyn Settle
Norman (uncredited)
Martin Pfefferkorn
1940s Prisoner (uncredited)
Anna Kuchma
Interracial Couple (uncredited)
Sean Grady
Barfly (uncredited)
Matt Giroveanu
Luke's Friend #1 (uncredited)
Nick Diamantis
Merchant Marine (uncredited)
Jonathan Cantor
Ogden Nash (uncredited)
Ranardo Domeico Grays
Jazz Club Patron (uncredited)
John Krokidas
Director / Writer / Producer
Austin Bunn
Writer
Christine Vachon
Producer
Rose Ganguzza
Producer
Michael Benaroya
Producer
Kill Your Darlings Ratings & Reviews
Film Comment Magazine
Amy Taubin
Krokidas's romantic sense of the characters and the moment corresponds precisely to the way those young men saw themselves-at once closeted and defiant, making up the rules of art and sexuality as they went along.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Calvin Wilson
Bursting with hipster attitude and New York atmosphere, the fact-based "Kill Your Darlings" is a coming-of-age chronicle that morphs into a crime story without missing a beat.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Above all, and what sets it apart from other cinematic takes on the Beatified, is how much fun it is. It may end in tears, but then, don't all great love stories?
Detroit News
Tom Long
You don't need to know the Beats to understand "Kill Your Darlings," you just need to know the twinkling promise, and dark turns, of life.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Overall the movie seems to wander, like the worst excesses of free verse, needing a little structure to rein it in.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
"Kill Your Darlings" occupies some in-between place, with young, intelligent actors working hard at being gritty as their director makes sure we see every ounce of effort.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Kill Your Darlings is a tale of inspiration, then, but also a tale of jealousy, obsession, homophobia, and homicide. It's a whirlwind.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
A lukewarm Radcliffe, plus a wandering script, make for a fair-to-middling movie, but the raw material of this dark corner of Beat history remains fascinating.
Film Comment Magazine
Jonathan Robbins
A sometimes magical film that gives a palpable sense of the cultural currents and interpersonal dynamics that gave rise to the unlikely beginnings of the Beat generation.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Ultimately ... two points of emphasis must be pared down to one, and this is where "Kill Your Darlings," arriving at the fork in the road, makes the wrong turn.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Though based on fact, the film is awash in delicious and difficult ambiguities.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
That Ginsberg is played by Daniel Radcliffe might come as a shock, but the movie rolls on and you realize you're in very good hands.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
This debut feature by New York University graduate John Krokidas outpaces most dramatic films about Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William S. Burroughs, pushing back the legend enough to consider them as people.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Director and co-writer John Krokidas doesn't have a very fluent gift for period re-creation - everything seems stagy - and most of the actors, playing divas of various stripes, overact.
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Leonard Maltin
Radcliffe is particularly good as the bright, nave young man who seeks escape from an oppressive home life with his poet-father and mentally unstable mother...
RogerEbert.com
Christy Lemire
A sort of Muppet Babies version of the Beat poets ...
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Krokidas develops a nice rhythm - crucial for any film about the Beat movement - even if the composition feels a bit too meticulous.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
Kill Your Darlings wants to be a young man's movie, but it's all "cinema du papa," as the French New Wave used to call it.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
The saving grace of Kill Your Darlings is its sordid romantic angle, a narrative thread that pulls the film away from wink-wink allusions and into more serious emotional territory.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Sex, lies, betrayal and murder set among the gods of the Beat Generation. That's Kill Your Darlings, a dark beauty of a film that gets inside your head and stays there.
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