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Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It is a tale of white trash immorality on a grand scale, of people who are ridiculous and yet dangerous, laughable but cunning, and really stupid ... yet sneaky. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Lurches from realism to corn-pone absurdism and exploitation-cinema surrealism. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: It sends you home reeling, but wondering what the point of it was, and why so many worthwhile people bothered to do it in the first place. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: "Killer Joe" is, at bottom-and I mean bottom-ugly and vile, not to mention dumb and clumsy. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: The movie frequently clicks as a sendup of over-the-top film-noir storytelling. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Killer Joe spins a lot of dumb hick behavior into a wellspring of comedy and plot twists, recalling Raising Arizona's colorful vernacular while turning a simple contract job into a complicated web of family betrayals. Read more
Noel Murray, AV Club: Killer Joe pitches to the rafters, amping up a hicksploitation thriller with unnecessary jolts of savage violence and abuse. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: [Friedkin] has retained his touch ... all these years later. And in Matthew McConaughey, he has the perfect vehicle for madness. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Like a deep-fried Twinkie at the State Fair of Texas, ''Killer Joe'' is gooey, flavorful and bad for you. Dig in. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It's as mean as a snake. Read more
Drew Hunt, Chicago Reader: The film harks back to the low-budget chamber pieces of Friedkin's early career, and he creates a perfect storm of montage and character interplay within a confined space, which culminates in a disturbing loss of humanity. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Like a deep-fried Twinkie at the State Fair of Texas, Killer Joe is gooey, flavorful and bad for you. Dig in. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: If you like your movies filled with twisted humor, sexual perversion, psychological intimidation and sudden violence, "Killer Joe" is the flick for you. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Throws down a dare by expecting its audience to be the cool connoisseurs of the story's "comic" outrageousness, then rubbing viewers' faces in close-up scenes of brutality that reasonable people ought not to be able to watch. Read more
Neil Young, Hollywood Reporter: Enjoyably cynical, blood-spattered noir-comedy elicits more laughs than thrills. Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: Out of the muck and mire of human depravity that is "Killer Joe," something magnificent comes: a killer performance by Matthew McConaughey. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: You end up feeling sorry for all the actors forced to humiliate themselves, except for McConaughey, whose portrayal of sadistic, manipulative evil is mesmerizing. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: That everything should go wrong is no surprise, but the wrong turns are taken so viciously -- Gershon, in particular, is appallingly treated, in closeup -- that they lead the film, adapted from the play by Tracy Letts, to the brink of abusive farce. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: There are no characters here, and no drama. It's just a county fair sideshow attraction - 100 minutes of Shoot the Geek. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: "Killer Joe" offers us a sneering image of trailer-park Texas, in which everyone is stupid and amoral and trashier than their cluttered front yards. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: A sleazy and pointless film about sleazy and pointless people, "Killer Joe" reminds us that what Quentin Tarantino does isn't easy. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Killer Joe is twisted pulp, and the actors chew on it bravely, boldly, and with varying degrees of success. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: A gleeful and unapologetic descent into delicious decadence, Killer Joe is proud of what it is and never tries to be something it isn't. Read more
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: One of the three best performances of McConaughey's career. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: "Killer Joe" is one hell of a movie. It left me speechless. I can't say I loved it. I can't say I hated it. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: As a sadistic dallas cop who moonlights as a hit man, Matthew McConaughey is on fire in Killer Joe, fierce and ferociously funny. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Friedkin's still got it - the "it" being his ability to infuse every frame of the film with powerful ambiguity and doubt, and also his ability to attract terrific actors and propel them in unexpected directions. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: Plot twists that might have played as clever onstage feel false on screen, and while the individual actors are all gifted (if in some cases miscast), they never really come together as an ensemble. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: You will either love "Killer Joe" or run away screaming. I absorbed this NC-17 nail bomb with awestruck admiration. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: 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. Read more
Adam Nayman, Globe and Mail: In the immortal words of Wayne's World: "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll hurl." Read more
Bruce Demara, Toronto Star: If y'all like your comedy with a Lone Star drawl and as black as Texas tea, then by all means tuck right into Killer Joe. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: McConaughey's fans might be shocked to see him in this role - more likely, they'd skip the opportunity - but they ought to give his performance a shot. Read more
Guy Lodge, Time Out: Friedkin's direction is rough and ready, but Letts's tangy writing is the star here. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: The bone-crunchingly violent film has luridly entertaining moments. But by its resolution, this sleazy Southern Gothic nightmare has simply gone off the rails. Read more
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: Friedkin, a son of Chicago's working-class South Side who has swerved back and forth over the thin blue line of order and chaos throughout his career, is a fine fit to the material. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Friedkin make no attempt to soften the characters' monstrousness, and thank hell for that. This is rave and rage and purge acting. Read more
Mark Jenkins, Washington Post: The action and dialogue find the same squalid level in time for the climactic scene, the cruel humiliation of a central character. Read more