Instead of a conventional narrative, 鈥淜iller of Sheep鈥� presents us with a mood.

| Apr 28, 2025

A sharply observed, lyrically romantic drama of a young paterfamilias in Watts named Stan, whose harsh job in a slaughterhouse leaves him embittered and depressed.

| Apr 18, 2025

Killer of Sheep vibrates with the uncontainable energy of a sui generis masterpiece, tapping into something timeless and quintessential about the Black American experience – and American life in general.

| Apr 17, 2025

It's a complicated, collage portrait that doesn't provide answers, only brilliant reflections.

| Dec 8, 2021

It's quiet, unhurried, understated, unblinking. Mood matters more than style, dailiness more than incident.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 21, 2020

It's a very internal film, brought out by some incredibly emotive acting, Burnett's melancholic tone and some brilliant cinematic framings.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 11, 2020

Killer of Sheep is virtually a blues symphony.

| May 21, 2020

Even with a cast of unprofessional actors, Killer of Sheep is always vibrantly alive and unflinchingly real.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 5, 2019

The differences between the '70s and now are deeper than just a matter of hairstyles, fashion, and phones. We can see that difference clearly, and beautifully, in Black writer-director Charles Burnett's haunting first film, Killer of Sheep.

| Mar 12, 2019

Charles Burnett still hasn't gotten his due... In spite of his later difficulties, Burnett's first feature-his thesis film at UCLA-Killer of Sheep (1978), has gone on to influence quite a few artists in the late 20th and early 21st century.

| Nov 18, 2018

Killer of Sheep finds the beauty in the relentless ordinariness, making this a remarkable film.

| Aug 7, 2018

Poverty in the ghetto is not the guns and drugs we see on 온라인카지노추천. It is more often like life in this movie: Good, honest, hard-working people trying to get by, keep up their hopes, love their children and get a little sleep.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 2, 2018

...a plaintive piece of romantic realism.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 24, 2018

To obtain an adequate understanding of the film-which is about a sad man in a black Los Angeles neighborhood who kills sheep for a living-you must watch it much more than once.

| Aug 21, 2017

It's to Burnett's credit that he is able to observe problems of class and race without narrowing his vision to become an 'issues movie' or a sermon.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | May 18, 2010

Nearly avant-garde in its purity

| Aug 27, 2009

The fantastic thing about this beautiful film is how little it tries to make a statement about anything; it is, simply, life.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 30, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 20, 2008

Burnett is a truly unsung cinematic movie pioneer, clearly in the vanguard in that lonely and trying battle to colorize, so to speak, ideas and experiences in film with his body of unheralded visionary work.

| Jan 26, 2008