Killer's Kiss 1955

Janet Maslin, New York Times: Kubrick worked in an uncharacteristically naturalistic style despite the genre material, with mixed but still fascinating results. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: A noirish thriller with experimental trimmings that holds back most of the emotions, sensitive as well as otherwise, that threatened to make Kubrick's first feature mawkish. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Kubrick makes the most of flashback and dream sequences, and a surreal climactic fight in a warehouse full of mannequins. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Kubrick's low-key lensing occasionally catches the flavor of the seamy side of Gotham life. Read more