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Killing Them Softly
Directed by
Andrew Dominik
R
2012
1h 37m
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6.2
74%
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Three amateurs stickup a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse. Brad Pitt plays the hitman hired to track them down and restore order.
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Cast of Killing Them Softly
Brad Pitt
Jackie Cogan / Producer
Scoot McNairy
Frankie
Ben Mendelsohn
Russell
James Gandolfini
Mickey
Ray Liotta
Markie Trattman
Richard Jenkins
Driver
Vincent Curatola
Johnny Amato
Sam Shepard
Dillon
George Carroll
Kenny Gill
Max Casella
Barry Caprio
Trevor Long
Steve Caprio
Linara Washington
Hooker
Ross Brodar
Poker Guy
Wade Allen
Business Suit Agent
Christopher Berry
Cab Driver Agent
Kenneth Brown Jr.
Security Force Agent
Mustafa Harris
Bartender #1
John McConnell
Bartender #2
Dared Wright
Waiter
Joe Chrest
Business Suit Agent
Elvin Yoshida
Asian Poker Player (uncredited)
Glen Warner
Construction Worker (uncredited)
Logan Douglas Smith
Bus Station Construction Worker (uncredited)
Adam Sibley
Naked Guy (uncredited)
Henry Paulson
Self (archive footage)
Barack Obama
Self (archive footage)
John McCain
Self (archive footage)
David Joseph Martinez
Pablo (uncredited)
Raymond Lapino
Elderly Poker Player (uncredited)
Shadoe Knight
Mafia Poker Player (uncredited)
John C. Klein
Traveler (uncredited)
Wendy Clarice Jordan
Pink Pants (uncredited)
Kirk Jordan
DEA Agent (uncredited)
Joshua Joseph Gillum
Murderer (uncredited)
Oscar Gale
Sweet Melinda (uncredited)
Gregory Allen Gabroy
Reveler (uncredited)
Garret Dillahunt
Eddie Mattie (uncredited)
Peter A. DeFazio
Self (archive footage)
Edward J. Clare
Prison Doctor (uncredited)
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
Rhonda Floyd Aguillard
Pedestrian (uncredited)
Julia Adams
Maid (uncredited)
Roger Pfeiffer
Bar Patron #3
Shannon Brewer
Bar Patron #2
Bryan Billingsley
Bar Patron #1
Andrew Dominik
Director / Writer
George V. Higgins
Writer
Dede Gardner
Producer
Steve Schwartz
Producer
Paula Mae Schwartz
Producer
Killing Them Softly Ratings & Reviews
jackmeat
July 23, 2025
My quick rating 6.0/10. It was good, with decent performances, but the story as a whole was a bit bland. Still a good watch, and not sure how this one slipped through the cracks over the years.
parcolan
July 3, 2025
Brad Pitt in his prime 👌🏻
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Cary Darling
The anvils of obviousness rain down so hard and fast in New Zealand-born/Australian-based director Andrew Dominik's meditation on low-rent crime and American decline, that it might as well be a Coyote-Road Runner cartoon
The Atlantic
Christopher Orr
Like its source material, the movie is stylish, profane, intelligent, and eminently diverting. But as much as it is a delight that Dominik has disinterred Higgins's work, it is a mild disappointment that the result is not more substantial.
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Caryn James
A disappointing, derivative noir that gets its spark from Pitt and Gandolfini's performances. Slight and pulpy, but it's aiming for arty and trenchant.
Variety
Justin Chang
Trading in pleasures of a deliberately rarefied sort, writer-director Andrew Dominik's talky, character-rich genre piece largely short-circuits thrills to sketch a grimly funny portrait of thugs taking care of business, in every rotten sense of the word.
Back Stage
Tim Grierson
As with "The Assassination of Jesse James," "Killing Them Softly" indulges in a hyper-stylish approach that both demythologizes and romanticizes its milieu.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Ultimately, as crafted as Killing Them Softly is, it's less satisfying than either The Sopranos or Goodfellas. Still, Dominik and his cast cruise some very mean streets indeed.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The dialogue is sharp and so are the performances. Andrew Dominik directed this neo-noir in a low-key comic style that's alternately gritty and fancy. The gritty stuff is best.
Seattle Times
Soren Andersen
Dominik ... expertly captures the flavor of his Higgins source material.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Let's just call it DOA.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
It isn't much of a movie. I might forgive the slow start if it weren't for the slow middle and slow end.
TheWrap
Alonso Duralde
While the cast is consistently watchable and on-point, Dominik disappoints as both scenarist and filmmaker.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
Pitt, entering his third decade of fame, continues to show how there was always a deadly serious actor in him all along.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
There is not one moment in the film that doesn't represent the director's carefully considered thought, whether we're talking about acting values, camera placement, sound or style of presentation.
Slate
Dana Stevens
It's hard to deglamorize the criminal life when you can't resist showing a bullet leaving a gun barrel in stylized super-slow motion or scoring the anti-hero's first entrance to a Johnny Cash song.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
It has a weird, buzzing, intense quality that has burrowed its way deep into my brain like some invasive sci-fi organism.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
Dominik brings a sleek pulp sensibility to the material and melds its topicality to a strange form of scathingly anti-capitalist entertainment.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
The writer-director becomes so intent on hammering home the parallels between economic decay, political disappointments and petty criminals, there is nothing soft, or subtle, about it. He should trust his audience more.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
We get it, we get it, the real crooks are on Wall Street and in Washington. Balletic blood spatters juxtaposed with songs are ironic. Or something like that.
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