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3.5
Destroyer is an ultimately familiar slice of sleuthing nihilism that doesnt do a whole lot new with its covnentions.
Den Of Geek
4.5
As promised, Kidman is terrific in the lead role, charting a progression over time thats far more than the skin deep visual trickery used to distingui ..
Den Of Geek
3.8
The movie takes its time to provide a satisfying rationale, occasionally suffering from a sluggish pace and sleepy atmosphere that lessens the underly ..
Indie Wire
4.5
Kusama doesnt bend the rules of the genre, but the movie features a structural complexity that becomes increasingly clear, and the two hour running ti ..
Indie Wire
2.5
Nicole Kidman goes slumming in Destroyer, a grimy cop drama about revenge and redemption that scratches the underbelly of Southern California with dir ..
Austin Chronicle
1.5
Its a narrative defect that throws the movie off balance, one in which the today doesnt fully reconcile with the yesterday.
Austin Chronicle
2.0
Nicole Kidman shows off how grungy she can get, to the disservice of an undernourished police thriller.
Time Out
5.0
Kidman brings such compelling conviction to her role as a tormented detective that she single handedly imbues the film with urgency and authenticity.
Screen Daily
3.5
0 Theres a legion of male actors whove earned praise and accolades for playing bad menAl Pacino, Robert De Niro, Jon Hamm, Bryan Cranston.
Collider
4.5
This doesnt make Destroyer a film only for women (just as Crazy Rich Asians doesnt only appeal to Asians), but it does serve as proof that theres no r ..
Collider
4.5
Photo: Sabrina Lantos/Annapurna Pictures The first thing youll notice about Destroyer is Nicole Kidmans face.
Vulture
2.5
In the new crime thriller Destroyer, director Karyn Kusama has an intuitive feel for Los Angeles, its sun blasted concrete, its overpasses providing s ..
Rogerebert
3.0
Destroyers grim and grubby vision of Los Angeles is a decent enough cover version of the fractured metropolis iconised by Michael Mann in modern noir ..
Telegraph
1.5
Kidman is a large part of why the character works period because, as mentioned, Erin isnt likable (nor should she have to be) and she doesnt magically ..
The Young Folks
4.5
Nicole Kidman Kicks and Slams Her Way Into The Oscar Race With The Brutal Destroyer By Sean OConnell Random Article Blend Roughly five times, while wa ..
Cinema Blend
5.0
Destroyer (TIFF 2018) 10 10 PLOT: A worn out, alcoholic LA cop (Nicole Kidman) is forced to confront old demons when an enemy from her past reemerges.
JoBlo
3.5
Share Tweet Email Copy Link Copied Powered by Kidmans fierce performance and Kusamas deliberate filmmaking, Destroyer makes for an effectively pulpy w ..
Screen Rant
3.8
The Globes guide to TIFF 2018 movies We watched them and rated them, now read all about them.
The Globe And Mail
3.8
Director Karyn Kusama shifts dexterously between the present and the past, unspooling a satisfyingly twisted piece of storytelling by writers Phil Hay ..
The Globe And Mail
3.8
You also get a sense of the rather narrow range of her performance she plays haunted, hollowed out L.A. detective Erin Bell, staggering from barroom t ..
Philly
2.5
The payoff comes midway through Destroyer, the big moment when all the street cred that Nicole Kidman has been building up with her worn, raw, nose bu ..
Rogers Movie Nation
4.2
2015s The Invitation returned Kusama to greatness, masterminding a macabre, sneaky chiller that pulled off the slow burn approach with confidence, and ..
Blu Ray
2.5
Become a fan on Facebook Follow on Twitter Review by Mark Dujsik | December 24, 2018 There is nothing special about the plot of Destroyer, a story abo ..
Mark Reviews Movies
3.8
CLOSE Critics are calling Nicole Kidmans performance in new film, Destroyer her best yet.
Usa Today
4.0
Nicole Kidman dominates this nihilistic Los Angeles set cop movie, delivering easily her most audacious and committed screen performance since she glu ..
The Times
3.0
This weeks film Destroyer 15, 121 mins What is it about Los Angeles that crimes there only ever seem to happen in flashback
The Times
4.0
Nicole Kidman dominates this nihilistic Los Angeles set cop movie, delivering easily her most audacious screen performance since she glued on a latex ..
The Times
4.5
Director Karyn Kusama (The Invitation) has outdone herself here with an affecting, entertaining drama.
Lariat
5.0
Review Our Score by Emma Simmonds Crime thriller conventions and feminist film cliches fall by the wayside in director Karyn Kusamas exhilarating and ..
Radio Times
1.5
Hes telling her this as shes after a man from her traumatic past for whom he now launders money and isnt about to give up the mans whereabouts.
Screen It
3.0
Director Kusama and Kidman relish giving a fresh spin to a very familiar genre.
Independent
3.5
Nicole Kidman strips away every trace of star glamour to play Erin Bell, an LAPD detective and boozy burnout trying to close the books on the cold cas ..
Rolling Stone
3.5
Kusama expertly orchestrates both gloomy moodiness and electrifying action.
Shadows On The Wall
3.0
Destroyer Karyn Kusama Annapurna Pictures 25 Dec 2018 (US) Other Its hard to imagine a less family friendly Christmas day film than Karyn Kusamas gruf ..
Pop Matters
4.5
Destroyer is not for the faint of heart.Is this the best performance of Kidmans career
The Wrap
1.5
The premise of a guilt ridden cop boozing his way through life until he can settle one last debt and go out in a blaze of glory doesnt scream original ..
The Wrap
3.1
Destroyer is a worthwhile film, especially for moviegoers who love film noir in all its phases: The hard boiled Bogart era, the nihilist takes of the ..
News Day
2.8
Nicole Kidman plays a gritty, semi disgraced Los Angeles police detective who seems hollowed out by rage in Karyn Kusamas Destroyer, and if the films ..
Cs Monitor
2.0
It has not received quite as much hype as Matthew McConaugheys McConaissance but Nicole Kidmans return from the unfair brink of Hollywood purgatory ha ..
The Guardian
4.0
Amid the hoopla of Tuesdays Oscar nominations (which saw numerous nods for this weeks other big release, Vice), it was depressing to be faced with yet ..
The Guardian
4.0
Director Karyn Kusama kickstarted her career in 2000 with the fierce Girlfight; she gives us a sense memory of that picture with this bruisingly excel ..
The Guardian
2.5
CLOSE Nicole Kidman stars as a detective who must reconnect with people from her past as an undercover agent to reckon with the demons that destroyed ..
Az Central
3.5
Instead they offer a clear eyed portrait of a destructive soul rampaging its way toward redemption.
Npr
3.2
Will any review of Destroyer begin without mentioning exactly what it does to Nicole Kidmans movie star face
Ew
5.0
Nicole Kidman is gunning for her second Best Actress Oscar as Erin Bell in Karyn Kusamas Destroyer.
Salon
5.0
Destroyer Katherine McLaughlin 15 October 2018 LFF 2018: Nicole Kidman puts in a transformative performance as an alcoholic LAPD detective on the hunt ..
Flim List
4.5
Picture this.Youre picking a college, and you have a lot of options on the table.
Film Inquiry
4.5
Worth the pain, worth the ugliness, worth the weird voodoo magicworth it all.
Film Inquiry
4.5
This may very well turn you off (it certainly doesnt make for pleasurable viewing), but its remarkable to see a director and an actress so precisely f ..
Film Inquiry
4.0
Kidman has hollowed herself out and delivered a starkly powerful turn.
Empire
2.5
Its essentially a character study the trouble is that theres not much character there. | Photo: Courtesy of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival The thi ..
Eye For Film
3.0
Susan Grangers review of Destroyer (Annapurna) Beautiful, statuesque Nicole Kidman continues to demonstrate her fearless versatility, playing a distra ..
Susang Ranger
4.0
Driven by Kidmans forceful, demolishing performance and a deliriously complex, snaky screenplay, this mature, intricately designed crime drama is more ..
Common Sense Media
4.0
Nicole Kidman kicks all kinds of serious ass here and its glorious to behold, but if you strip away that gripping mother daughter bond, youre left wit ..
Flickering Myth
4.0
Karyn Kusama captures Nicole Kidman as weve never seen her before in the edgy crime drama, Destroyer.
Flim Threet
3.5
MOVIE REVIEW: Destroyer Rated R. At AMC Loews Boston Common and Kendall Square Cinema.
Boston Herald
1.9
When Nicole Kidman won the Oscar for her ostentatious turn as Virginia Woolf in The Hours, she only had to don a prosthetic nose.
Slant Magazine
2.5
Barely recognizable and acting at the top of her game, Nicole Kidman plays a tarnished Los Angeles police detective in search of revenge.
Washington Post
3.5
.Little of what Bell does next makes her more attractive or pleasant or remotely relatable, which is a relief.
The New York Times
3.5
Kidman gives one of her best performances, and Kusama keeps us interested even when we know whats coming.
The Film Stage
1.9
Neither dense, distracting makeup nor confused, convoluted chronology can disguise the fact that Karyn Kusamas Destroyer, scripted by Phil Hay and Mat ..
Boston Globe
4.5
This is filmic storytelling that is as tense and as grim as we expect a crime thriller to be, but uncompromising and subtly challenging in a way that ..
Flickfilosopher
3.0
Detective Erin Bell (Kidman at full stretch) staggers, still drunk from the night before, on to a sunny southern Californian crime scene.
The Irish Times
3.8
Destroyer could earn Nicole Kidman some consideration for an Oscar nomination and the gritty neo noir storyline about obsession, guilt, and betrayal i ..
ReelViews
2.0
Hers is a bold performance in a sometimes potent but troublesome film, one that does have a pretty grand opinion of its own importance.
Hollywood Reporter
4.5
Karyn Kusamas tiny horror picture The Invitation is a powder keg: a visual rumination on the lasting lacerations of grief and trauma, and how individu ..
Birth Movies Death
3.0
Hollywood likes to debunk its glamorous image, but only in small doses.
Standard
4.5
TIFF 2018: Destroyer is a Razor Sharp L.A. Thriller with a Dominating Nicole Kidman Performance By Kayleigh Donaldson | Film | September 9, 2018 | Ove ..
Pajiba
2.5
For these very different women, everything is at stake: freedom, survival and, yes, revenge, as much against the men who abandoned them to their pligh ..
Los Angeles Times
3.5
The characters savage amorality is so pervasive that it plays not as truth but as a cold aesthetic choice, one that keeps us at arms length rather tha ..
Los Angeles Times
3.8
Emotionally Barren Destroyer a Violently Bleak Thriller Veteran LAPD Detective Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman) is a living catastrophe.
Movie Freak
1.8
Nicole Kidman acts with a capital A in twisty police drama with little payoff Nicole Kidman in Destroyer.
Detroit News
4.5
You dont go in expecting a happy ending from a movie that serves up such an unhappy everything that came before.
Variety
1.5
(CNN) Nicole Kidmans very busy year including roles in Boy Erased and Aquaman concludes on a dour, dark note in Destroyer, with the actress starring i ..
Cnn
3.5
The following review was originally published as part of our coverage of the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.
Consequence Of Sound
2.5
Destroyer casts Nicole Kidman as Erin Bell, a grizzled police officer who must delve into her past and reconnect with former associates (and perps) to ..
Reel Film
4.4
These are the two primal forces driving police officer Erin Bell, twin engines that have pared her body (and soul) to the bare minimum, leaving her a ..
The Star
3.8
Instead of bringing something unique to the picture it ends up being unnecessarily jarring more than anything else.
The Play List
2.5
This kind of image slumming is too familiar by now, and theres not one moment where its not Nicole Kidman doing a performance up there.Pity.
Film Freak Central
3.0
Its standard neo noir stuff, and reasonably satisfying. But when Kusama strips the story down to its essentials... you can see a better, meaner neo no ..
Now Toronto
1.0
DESTROYER SYNOPSIS: LAPD detective Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman) is forced to face her demons when a dead body is found.
Urban Cine File
1.5
Destroyer shows that Kidman will take down her enemies, her family, and your patience.
Film School Rejects
4.3
You can see, from an actors perspective, what would be appealing about a completely transformative role; an opportunity to play against type.
Film Ink
3.0
In Karyn Kusamas LA based noir Destroyer, Nicole Kidman stars and startles as desiccated detective Erin Bell, revived by the possibility of vengeance ..
Cine Vue
4.0
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Mirror
3.8
Nicole Kidmans face is a map of pain in this pitch black detective noir directed by Karyn Kusama, who also helmed the underrated Jennifers Body in 200 ..
New York Post
4.0
Should the Oscars expand the number of nominees in the acting categories, as has been done with Best Picture
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
4.0
Lost in the shuffle of award season comes a police procedural so hard boiled it could break your teeth.
Nz Herald
4.0
Director Karyn Kusama reunites with the writers of 2015s The Invitation for cop thriller Destroyer, in cinemas this week (find times and tickets).
Flicks
4.0
Were in downtown Los Angeles, and Detective Erin Bell (an unrecognisable Nicole Kidman) is in an awful state.
Independent Ie
4.0
In everything at the minute, and uniformly brilliant, Nicole Kidman pushes herself into new and dark territory in Karyn Kusamas unflinching crime dram ..
Independent Ie
4.0
Destroyer (R16, 123 mins) Directed by Karyn Kusama In downtown Los Angeles, a place apparently lit by blazing sun every day, grimy sodium and flickeri ..
Stuff
2.5
Her performance... is a beacon in a film that tends to gets lost in its own convoluted plot. It makes Destroyer not just worth seeing, but worth revis ..
Refinery 29
4.0
I went in to this blind all Id heard was that Nicole Kidman is brilliant and that shed undergone a drastic transformation to play the role of LAPD Det ..
The Sun
5.0
A very bad guy in Destroyer offers good news and bad news, as he describes it, to the rageful heroine, Erin Bell, a Los Angeles police detective playe ..
Wsj
2.5
The only excitement here is Kidman, who unleashes a chilling fury while doing everything in her power to waylay Destroyers eventual destruction.
Patriot Ledger
4.5
The end result is a movie thats simultaneously a character study and an addicting crime thriller.
Film
4.5
In a career filled with memorable and brave performances, this may be the best Kidman has ever been.
Film
3.5
Any hour long cop drama offers up the same shi**y personal details that Erin suffers through, but Kidman has us gripped from the moment she first appe ..
Punch Drunk Critics
5.0
Destroyer is beautiful, heartbreaking, cinematic perfection. They really do not get much better than this.
ComingSoon
3.5
REVIEW / THRILLER DESTROYER (M18) 123 minutes/Opens today/3.5 stars The story: Detective Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman) is called to a crime scene an unide ..
Straits Times
4.5
Theres a fine line between archetype and clichebetween characters and situations that gain power from their familiarity and ones we tune out because i ..
The Ringer
4.0
This review was originally published as part of our London Film Festival coverage on 16/10/2018.
One Room With A View
4.5
Destroyer features a strong performance from actress Nicole Kidman but its storytelling decisions might prevent some from truly enjoying the film.
Solzy At The Movies
3.1
2018 TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL: In Karyn Kusamas Destroyer, Nicole Kidman stars as a declining police detective who reconnects with the people who were ..
Awards Circuit
4.0
While Kidmans scenery chewing is effective, the real star of Destroyer is the director, Karyn Kusama.
The Skinny
3.5
Photo: Fantastic Fest Although the idea of Nicole Kidman showing up for a bucket of Shiner Bock and some karaoke at Fantastic Fest is, frankly, rather ..
Film Avclub
4.5
Welcome to Cheat Sheet, our brief breakdown style reviews of festival films, VR previews, and other special event releases.
The Verge
3.8
It was the worst of times, and the worst of times a tale of one City of Angels whose then and now are equally rotten for Detective Erin Bell.
Post Gazette
3.0
Officer down Years ago, a cop was assigned to infiltrate a criminal organisation in Los Angeles.
Alternate Ending
4.5
**This post contains some spoilers for the Karyn Kusama film Destroyer.** There are often movies that, while youre watching them, youre not sure how y ..
The Mary Sue
2.5
Note: This film review was written after DESTROYER premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Fresh Fiction
1.5
Destroyer is a soap opera with slivers of dirty soap.It cant remove the stain of indie pretension.
Tony Mack
2.0
Filmmaker Karyn Kusama does a great job of directing Kidman in this role, but the movie just doesnt hold itself together.
Black Girl Nerds
4.0
I saw this film at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, and every time Ive seen its star, Nicole Kidman, since then, I think: Thank G ..
National Post
5.0
Fans of Dan Fogelman (Crazy, Stupid, Love, TVs This Is Us) know whats in store with this syrupy drama about two families on opposite sides of the Atla ..
Original Cin
4.0
Sabotage Triage: Kusama and Kidman Break the Bank in Riveting Revenge Thriller Robert Burns eternal line The best laid schemes o Mice an Men/Gang aft ..
Ion Cinema
3.5
DESTROYER (M18) 3.5 Ticks This crime drama actioner follows the existential and moral odyssey of LAPD detective Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman), who remains ..
The New Paper
3.5
Movies so often depict loose cannon cops as heroes, men (its always men) who work for the law but happily ignore it to leave the villains behind bars ..
Fw Weekly
3.1
At first, it just seems like a glamorous actress playing dress up.
Datebook Sfchronicle
3.8
A different Nicole Kidman stares out at us under the harsh Los Angeles sun of the neo noir Destroyer.
Ap News
4.5
DESTROYER is worth seeing for its smart writing and its absorbing atmosphere.
Assignment X
3.0
Im not gonna lie.After screening Destroyer, I was like what the hell did I just see
Wp Me
1.5
AFI Fest Review: Destroyer Destroyer gives us another excellent performance by Nicole Kidman, but the scripts silly, retro pastiche of cop films leave ..
Culture
1.5
Destroyer plays like an FX pilot for Nicole Kidman (wisely) scrapped and (foolishly) retooled into a two hour movie.
Mid West Film Journal
1.5
By the time the film reveals all its secrets, its total divorce from human behavior will make it impossible to care what happened.
Washington City Paper
1.0
Destroyer is an LA noir starring Nicole Kidman as you have never seen her before.
Spectator
4.5
With its ominous score (by Theodore Shapiro, who usually works in comedy) and the angular geometry of its photography (like a skewed overhead shot of ..
Battleship Pretension
3.1
By Tom Meek Friday, January 11, 2019 Destroyer may be the bleakest cop drama to come around since Don Johnson puked up his guts as a booze addled cop ..
Cambridge Day
2.5
Not an actor prone to halfway measures, Nicole Kidman goes all the way in Destroyer, her aggressively unpleasant new movie.
Heral
3.5
Should female filmmakers be reinventing the genre rather than remixing it
News
3.1
Destroyer (Karyn Kusama, 2018) 2 out of 4 stars.Anchored by a searing turn from lead actress Nicole Kidman, Destroyer powers through its weaker moment ..
Film Festival Today
3.5
Director Karyn Kusamas powerfully dark and disturbingly violent crime drama is certainly challenging, and yet Nicole Kidmans central performance gives ..
Adelaide Review
3.8
Destroyer begins with a bedraggled, hungover L.A. police detective being summoned to a crime scene: a man with a distinctive tattoo on the back of his ..
Crooked Marquee
3.8
Wednesday, September 12, 2018 at 1:30PM by Nathaniel R One of the screenwriters of the sun blasted crime thriller Destroyer, describes the movie as a ..
The Film Experience
4.5
Share Pin 4 Shares By Eleanor Ringel Cater Destroyer sounds like an old Steven Seagal movie or a new Marvel villain.
Saportare Port
3.0
Do you really want to go back down that hole again asks one of her fellow detectives. Kidman here is something to seebecause youve never seen her look ..
Parade
4.0
Karyn Kusamas moody Los Angeles cop thriller, Destroyer, is destined to be remembered as the film in which one of Hollywoods most famously glamorous a ..
Bbc
4.5
In other words, shes a cliche, and if theres any deeper merit in Karyn Kusamas super sized and carefully crafted thriller, it lies in the way it both ..
Cinema Scope
1.5
I dont know if Nicole Kidman would describe herself as a method actor, but her commitment to a role is nothing less than 100%.
Leonard Mal
3.1
Nicole Kidman delivers another searing, persona busting performance in the crime drama Destroyer, but her work is a step above the garden variety stor ..
Movie Cricket
1.5
Share this: Destroyer Review Nicole Kidman is the wrecking ball in this otherwise tedious, drawn out drama.
At Home In Hollywood
4.0
Nicole Kidman Goes Gritty With Destroyer Destroyer Directed by Karyn Kusama Out December 25 Nicole Kidmans hot streak continues with her performance i ..
Bust
3.5
De glamming has all but becomes a cliche for well known actors and actresses to nab that ever elusive acting Oscar.
Worldo Free L
5.0
The washed up cop whos still recounting their past sins is a trope worn through to the copper of a badge.
812 Film Reviews
4.0
MUCH has been made about the transformative nature of Nicole Kidmans performance in Destroyer.
Indie London
4.5
Image: Annapurna Of all the film subgenres that provide ground for pure camp, self serious Oscar bait must be the most fertile.
The Muse Jezebel
4.5
Wigs and make up aside, it truly is like were watching two different people with Kidman leaving celebrity behind to deliver one of her finest performa ..
Jaredmobarak
1.9
It is a depressing, impersonal endeavor that will leave you callous and unmoved.
Reel Bob
4.5
The editing makes this nearly effortless as past and present are expertly interwoven to produce a gripping and unapologetic noir thriller.
Digital Journal
3.0
This is where the fun stuff usually resides in noir: In lapel grabbing close ups punctuated by dark aphorism delivered with a Bogart accent. Destroyer ..
Ex Press
4.4
Share In Karyn Kusamas gritty and grimy crime thriller Destroyer, Nicole Kidman plays Erin Bell, a grizzled LA detective only James Ellroy could love ..
Awards Watch
4.5
By Peg Aloi This hardscrabble crime thriller is also a powerfully subtle character study.
Arts Fuse
1.5
You can tell Destroyer is a quote unquote serious thriller because Nicole Kidman is made up to look terrible.
Wbur
4.5
American filmmaker Karyn Kusama has had what might best be described as an uneven career, both in terms of the critical and commercial reception to he ..
Four Three Film
4.5
DESTROYER Audio Review Double Toasted Rating Matinee DESTROYER Audio Review Erin Bell went undercover to infiltrate a gang in the California desert wi ..
Double Toasted
1.0
Annapurna Pictures Destroyer Destroyer By the looks of Detective Bell (Nicole Kidman), whose hollowed out eyes and jaundiced skin indicate years of al ..
Sd City Beat
3.0
Nicole Kidman plays startlingly against type in Karyn Kusamas LA noir Destroyer.
Dogandwolf
1.5
Nicole Kidman as Erin Belle in Destroyer (Annapurna Pictures) We first meet Erin Bell, the central character in Karyn Kusamas new film Destroyer, with ..
Bitch Media
2.0
Nicole Kidman appears worlds away from her posh and polished life in HBOs Big Little Lies as she assumes the role of a washed up undercover federal ag ..
Cinemacy
4.5
If the worst case scenario is a female driven Heat, that would still be worth doing.
Nerd Report
5.0
KamWilliams.com The Sly Fox Film Reviews publishes the content of film critic Kam Williams.
Kam Williams
4.0
Karyn Kusama is a director who has crossed many genres; from boxing movie (Girlfight), through to sci fi (Aeon Flux) and horror (Jennifers Body, The I ..
3.0
Days after viewing, when youre transported to relive the tale conveyed in near still life glares for Kidman, Destroyer becomes a movie that overcomes ..
Flicks
5.0
Instead, they offer a ruthlessly gritty and riveting thriller that pulls no punches.
Riot Material
1.0
Small talk is boring.We hate it, and its obvious why its a begrudgingly necessary preamble to any purposeful conversational exchange, universally dema ..
Another Gaze
1.0
Film Melissa Anderson DestroyerMelissa Anderson Eyes wide boozy: Nicole Kidman plays an alcoholic cop in Karyn Kusamas LA noir.
4 Columns
3.2
U nsettling, twisty and bleak noir set in L.A. about a mentally tortured and physically run down nasty detective .
Sover
3.1
Destroyers selling point is its leading lady Kidman whose fraught physicality and penetrating performance as an undesirable, conflicted cop in this st ..
Groups Google
4.0
We hear a cracking police radio and are greeted by two bloodshot eyes, familiar ones.
Dazed Digital
3.5
DESTROYER (Karyn Kusama, US, 2019, 120 minutes)The film begins with a body.
Seattle Film Blog
2.0
LOUISA: LOUISA SAYS: Nicole Kidman is the only bright spot in Destroyer, a grim yawner of lackluster brooding from director Karyn Kusama.
Screen Zealots
3.8
As is to be expected with smaller films angling for Oscar season attention to boost their visibility, Destroyer which comes courtesy director Karyn Ku ..
Geek
4.0
If you thought the make up department had done a number on Margot Robbie in Mary Queen of Scots, wait until you see Nicole Kidman in Destroyer.
John McDonald
3.5
Karyn Kusamas crime thriller is a darkened study that dabbles in film noir.
Discussing Film
3.5
In Destroyer, revenge is served cold, but it maybe needed a bit of warmth.
The Filtered Lens
4.0
Mesmerising arthouse meets cops and robbers.First she was bashing sea people through walls with a trident in Aquaman, now shes a dirty cop with an axe ..
FrewFilm
4.2
The years on the force have not been kind to detective Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman).
Cinema Axis
5.0
Oscar winning actress Nicole Kidman Karyn Kusama directs Destroyer, a riveting and gritty crime thriller starring Oscar winner Nicole Kidman in a virt ..
Times Of Malta
4.5
I love seeing actors take risks.Even more so, I love seeing movie stars take risks.
About Boulder
2.5
The fragmented structure of the film makes more interesting a conventional story, between a womans film and a classic noir.
Patreon
4.5
Its a shame that Karyn Kusamas Destroyer was released in during the last week of 2018, lost in the shuffle of holiday blockbusters and awards fodder.
1.5
Editors Note: Vanyalands Nick Johnston is north of the border all week long for the Toronto International Film Festival; click here for our continued ..
Vanyaland
3.0
Kusamas film is a fitfully engaging look at the corrosive effects of cops and robbers nihilism.
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