Reunited with his "Gattaca" muse Ethan Hawke, Niccol delivers a very timely and provocative slow boiler with a great deal to say about the current modern state of warfare.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 14, 2024

Recalling Stanley Kubrick with his clinical stillness and business-like air, Niccol is making an observation: war from a distance and without the sounds of bombs and screams is still war, and can still have adverse effects on the soldiers carrying it out.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 6, 2024

The material is intelligent and complex, and the themes, along with excellent performances from Hawke and Greenwood, more than compensate for Niccol's frequent heavy-handedness in his drama.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 21, 2022

Repetition and weariness are our subject now; the sunlight itself is diffused by death and destruction, the only thing raining down.

| Jul 2, 2021

This is the first major US feature film that has attempted to represent this criminal policy and its consequences both for the targeted populations and for the American people.

| Feb 12, 2021

Good Kill gives a better window into the mind of a modern combatant and entices more emotional connection from the viewer than most war movies.

| Jul 1, 2019

With more stereotypes than you can shake a joystick at, Good Kill reduces an important debate to a cliché-ridden mess. You'll die of boredom before it hits its target.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 10, 2019

It's an excellent depiction of modern warfare, a direct, dispassionate way of disposing of threats; yet its cold efficiency is remarkably chilling.

| Feb 26, 2019

It asks different questions about the kinds of stress we put the men and women in our military to, and they are questions that need to be asked, even if you might not like the answers you arrive at.

| Oct 11, 2017

Hawke, in particular, delivers a powerful and nuanced portrayal of a patriotic soldier who knows what he does is morally wrong yet realises it is to serve a greater good.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 20, 2017

This is a step in the right direction for [Andrew] Niccol.

| Aug 21, 2017

What a plethora of good lines there are. The movie can be accused of being dialogue heavy... But Niccol's literate script easily carries the film over its more cramped aspects.

| Jun 27, 2017

Good Kill ends up being a ponderous slog, a film that wants to be a conversation-starter but doesn't introduce any new or interesting entry points into that conversation.

| Jun 23, 2017

You know when you see a movie, and you don't hate it, but you don't love it, either?

| Sep 21, 2016

This isn't science fiction-it claims to be "based on actual events"-but it feels like it, with its sealed, space capsule-like remote cockpits and disconnection from the field of battle...

| Jun 16, 2016

Ethan Hawke has become a better actor with time and his work with Noccol is probably some of his best. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 1, 2016

Like many a previous Niccol work, Good Kill is a human drama about a man hurled into a technological future no one could anticipate: a world in which we humans have come up with yet another ingenious way to torment ourselves.

| Original Score: 5 of 5 | Apr 11, 2016

The film quickly loses its way and, after the initial engagement, things simply trail off, and the film doesn't deliver the strong climax it promises.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 6, 2016

Niccol's aim is single-minded and relentless.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 12, 2016

Good Kill is a timely, worthy, perhaps even important film that manages to tackle a complex issue with both even handedness and honesty. Unfortunately, as a piece of drama, it falls remarkably flat.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 8, 2016