2013 · drama · romance · thriller
Kill Your Darlings
Directed by John Krokidas1h 43m2013
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Our read: Kill Your Darlings (2013) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · romance · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
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“You want literary rebel fever, queer longing, and Beat-era New York atmosphere.”
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