The Killing of John Lennon 2007

Mark Rahner, Seattle Times: It's well-constructed and acted, but mainly just left me feeling like I needed a shower after an exercise in voyeurism surrounding an event that's still hard to watch. Read more

Sam Adams, Los Angeles Times: Gets inside Chapman's head but never under his skin. Read more

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Aaron Hillis, L.A. Weekly: Fastidiously researched, dubiously suspenseful character portrait is unable to salvage a lick of hindsight from the tragedy beyond "murderous narcissists are people too." Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: The only revelations in The Killing of John Lennon are those we could have picked up ourselves, assuming we cared enough to do so. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Piddington does a beautiful balancing act, creating a movie that works both on the level of suspense and as a detailed factual chronicle. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: Even if you can forgive [director] Piddington's mangling of the basics, you will find it hard to overlook his frantic use of slo-mo, a wobbly camera, freeze frames, double exposures and a close-up of a single eye. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Andrew Piddington's devastating re-enactment of events leading up to, including and immediately after the murder is taken from interviews, depositions and court transcripts. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: Chapman was on a simple, skewed quest for infamy. And he got it. One gathers he'd be chuffed to see this film. And that's the biggest issue of all. Read more

Aaron Hillis, Village Voice: Who is the audience here, besides depraved Beatles completists? Read more