In Killer Joe, director William Friedkin reaches magnificent new lows as he descends into playwright Tracy Letts' world of southern-fried depravity, stupidity, sexuality, and possibly (almost certainly) madness.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 3, 2022

Killer Joe is pitched squarely as a rotted black comedy of errors, a cavalcade of one disaster after another from a bunch of fools tripping over themselves in the pursuit of the one thing that drives America: Greed

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Sep 23, 2022

You won't see anything else like it this year.

| Original Score: B | Sep 18, 2021

The great William Friedkin's Killer Joe is raw and visceral. It's not a pleasant watch by any stretch of the imagination- but it is good. Very good.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 24, 2021

It's so good at being wrong - a 'dark comedy' in the full sense of the term.

| Original Score: A | Jul 31, 2020

Killer Joe will be a highly divisive film and I myself can't say I necessarily "enjoyed" it rather than experienced its unique brand of tragi-comedy. The final act is a phenomenal sequence...

| Mar 31, 2020

Killer Joe is tense, character-driven and McConaughey gives the performance of his career.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2019

Friedkin kills it with Killer Joe.

| Nov 27, 2019

A useful reflection on the nature of tyranny, and how it cowers and make zealots of the weak and vulnerable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2019

A dark, twisted, glorious throwback to delirious exploitation cinema in vogue at Friedkin's peak in the 1970s, this is one of the most enjoyable, provoking and hilarious films you'll see this year.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 27, 2019

Life is stranger than fiction, they say. But few pieces of fiction are as strange as the oddly winsome Killer Joe.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 27, 2018

Killer Joe's scenes are long and dialogue is of a high quality; by turns funny and absurd, yet also desperately sad.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 5, 2018

McConaughey's performance as Joe, the psychopath killer with some extreme sexual fetishes, is particularly impressive.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2018

As the head of this diamondback-rattlesnake-of-a-film, Matthew McConaughey strikes within a sadistic realm very few actors would dare to tread.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 26, 2018

Killer Joe is such a hideously over-the-top, black-hearted view of Southern-fried scumbags that even Texans like myself can't get offended.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 25, 2017

I'll never look at fried chicken the same way again.

| May 12, 2015

Killer Joe is trash. Not bad trash. Not pretentious trash. Just plain old ugly, funny, and sophisticated trash.

| Aug 11, 2014

The tone in Killer Joe feels so expertly and delicately crafted that we only laugh at the film's absurd scenarios if and when the filmmaker permits it so.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 2, 2014

Violent, coarse, perverted, and sickly hilarious, this is highly recommend for those who like their entertainment on the nasty, demented tip.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 25, 2013

This Southern-fried, darkly humorous trailer-trash exploitation crime noir revels in the greedy characters' idiocy and the deranged story's psychosexual luridness.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 17, 2013