Frankly, it's a pretty wretched story, but this small, cheap film has style to spare.
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03/06/08
Killer's Kiss (1955)
82 %
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Reviews Counted: 17
Fresh: 14
Rotten:3
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Runtime: 68 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: KILLER'S KISS, Stanley Kubrick's second feature-length film (though barely more than an hour), tells the story of a down-and-out boxer who falls for a comely female neighbor, leading to kidnapping and murder. Davey Gordon has seemingly... [More]
Starring: Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane, Ruth Sobotka
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Reviews for Killer's Kiss
1 - 17 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Kubrick's second feature shows his promise as a powerful and iconic director in motifs and style.
10/03/07
Top Critic It's tense, compelling and steeped in an urban anxiety that's strangely contemporary.
10/03/07
Kubrick's low-key lensing occasionally catches the flavor of the seamy side of Gotham life.
05/08/07
Top Critic Killer's Kiss is no one's idea of a great film but it displays much evidence of future brilliance.
02/12/07
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.
02/12/07
Kubrick makes the most of flashback and dream sequences, and a surreal climactic fight in a warehouse full of mannequins.
02/09/06
Depois deste filme, Kubrick jamais voltou a trabalhar com roteiros originais, optando apenas por adaptações – uma boa decisão, já que é a história que compromete este longa.
01/08/04
Kubrick worked in an uncharacteristically naturalistic style despite the genre material, with mixed but still fascinating results.
05/20/03
Top Critic
Offers some glimpses of what [Kubrick] was capable of doing with no budget and no crew and no actors.
03/17/02
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