Mistakenly thinks a lot of profanity, ugliness and bloodshed [...] are, in and of themselves, enough to sustain a satire about showbiz ruthlessness.

| Apr 1, 2016

Everyone is horrible all the time-so when they do horrible things to each other, the result is a chuckle rather than a vicious bite. The music business is cutthroat, we get it.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 1, 2016

"Kill Your Friends" goes to some ugly places, but it keeps a sturdy sense of rhythm.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 1, 2016

Watching "Kill Your Friends" unfold is not dissimilar to being at a party where someone's clever one-liner lulls you into a conversation that reveals a bitterly immature, dismissively one-note lout, after which you're trapped.

| Apr 1, 2016

Anchoring the pungent 1990s ambience is Mr. Hoult, easily oozing cool charisma.

| Mar 31, 2016

Though the script is full of arch, darkly funny observations, the movie gets stuck on the same clanging chord of all-hating cynicism.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 31, 2016

A more disagreeable collection of cynical, backstabbing, self-aggrandizing, shallow, vicious and vile specimens of humanity gathered together in a single motion picture would be difficult to conceive of.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 31, 2016

Takes the obvious jabs at record labels, shows its cards early and spends the rest of the time humming the same tune.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 30, 2016

Turning the sociopathic cynicism up to eleven tends to be ineffective unless wit and insight are included in the mix.

| Mar 29, 2016

The film's failed satire can't help but bolster Steven's antihero charisma.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 28, 2016

Hoult is a sharp performer but understandably struggles to find dark humour in cringe-worthy shock jock lines such as: "This music is the biggest insult to humanity since a roomful of Nazis first cooed over the blueprints for Auschwitz."

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 8, 2015

The rock bands, as is so often the case in movies, are no more convincing than the group that once won ironic favour in a Kit Kat commercial.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 6, 2015

Hoult (the film's executive producer) is either miscast, the victim of terrible direction or trying to convey, through a lacklustre performance, that his faith in the material was misplaced.

| Nov 6, 2015

The film's redeeming factor is its giddy sense of excess. Like the protagonist of The Wolf of Wall Street, Stelfox pushes everything to absolute extremes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2015

It features a memorable tap-a-long soundtrack (Radiohead, Blur, Oasis, the Prodigy, etc) and a woefully miscast Nicholas Hoult.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 5, 2015

A lairy, sweary and utterly joyless dirge through nineties music industry malaise.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 5, 2015

Nicholas Hoult does his best to bring Niven's weapons-grade scumbag to life, in a film hobbled by amateurish acting and absence of production value.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 5, 2015

The screenplay was adapted by John Niven from his own 2008 novel, and he makes the classic novelist's mistake of assuming that the best way to preserve the voice of his original work is by transplanting as many words as possible from it into the script.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 5, 2015

A grubby and gruellingly mean-spirited feature film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 5, 2015

Fitfully amusing but too tired to convince.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 2, 2015