Storyline
In the late 1990s, a drug-addled nihilist resorts to murder to climb the ladder of the London music industry.
Directors
Cast
Jim Piddock, Rosanna Arquette, James Corden, Nicholas Hoult, David Avery, Craig Roberts, Rosanna Hoult, Rosanna Hoult, Bronson Webb, Al Weaver, Moritz Bleibtreu, Georgia King, Tom Riley, Tom Riley, Joseph Mawle, Jumayn Hunter, Ed Skrein, Hugh Skinner, Len Blavatnik, Dustin Demri-Burns, Ella Smith, Edward Hogg, Alex Gillison, Osy Ikhile, Kurt Egyiawan, Damien Molony, Alannah Olivia, Danielle Walters, Dinita Gohil, Frida Sundemo, Thomas Ottersen, Kelly Burke, Russell Kilmister, Melissa Steel, Leon Rolle, Charlie Anson
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Reviews
70
Kill Your Friends remixes a brutally funny novel into an entertaining if somewhat familiar big-screen tale of amoral, chemically-fuelled decadence.
50
For a film about the music business, it’s interesting that Kill Your Friends sticks so faithfully to one note throughout; it’s as if Niven fears any glimpse of humanity might risk the project’s integrity, but the lack of human empathy ultimately becomes this project’s biggest handicap.
50
This could have been a lighter picture, sort of a semi-dark Nick Hornby spin on music. That might have been less accurate, but more watchable.
50
Slant Magazine
Thanks to a strong performance by Nicholas Hoult, all reptilian sinew and heroin-chic vacuity, it keeps threatening to become more dynamic and self-critical than its final result.
40
The difficulty with black comedy is avoiding overkill and Kill Your Friends is a dictionary definition of the word.
