The lead performances accurately sells the idea of a tourist who gets in over his head, though the ultimate destination of the journey doesn't make good on the tension experienced in the buildup.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 20, 2023

Easily one of the most visually appealing of 2012's films.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 23, 2020

Simon Killer is a psychiatrist's playground -- moral ambivalence, violence, pathological liar, violent sex, and at the same time, seeming like a lost little boy pulling every stunt in the book to get attention. Simon is manipulative evil.

| Nov 27, 2019

Corbet brilliantly pitches his character on a razor's edge between pitiful and terrifying: even when he's being sweet he reeks of malevolence.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 22, 2019

I was immediately taken by its sludgy imagery, great performances, and uninviting atmosphere.

| Jun 22, 2019

A raw, primal film that will leave you emotionally and psychologically stripped. Though a feeling of unease and dissonance pervades it, its cinematic elements are immaculate.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 15, 2019

A dark, visually arresting piece that uses its ambivalence and sordidness to pose serious questions about the limits of youthful delusions.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2019

[Simon] is an alienated and alienating character, and this chilling character study is near-impossible to love but easy to admire.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 21, 2018

Corbet is a major new talent, whose future promise seems without boundaries

| Aug 12, 2016

The kind of film we'll look back on more fondly after everybody involved has moved on to bigger and better things.

Full Review | Apr 28, 2015

There's a highly engaging dramatic thriller hidden somewhere in this lugubrious, tamped-down Parisian nightmare.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 12, 2013

Simon Killer is a sensory, experiential film - more of a state of mind than a straightforward story.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 15, 2013

Self-consciousness passing for style.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 2, 2013

"Simon Killer" is a beautifully made look at ugliness and brutality, the kind of oxymoronic exercise that fascinates some and repels others.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 2, 2013

Not for everyone, in fact generally disrecommended for anyone except those who admired Martha Marcy May Marlene.

Full Review | Apr 27, 2013

... a sexy, edgy character study that slowly draws you into its web even as it unnerves you ... a hybrid of 'The Talented Mr. Ripley" and, for its steamy lovemaking, the X-rated 'Last Tango in Paris.'

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 25, 2013

Simon Killer is as juvenile as the behaviour of its central character, but thankfully its weaker moments are reasonably scarce and for the most part the film is an interesting, if a little surface level, character study that is difficult to shake off.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 14, 2013

Unpleasant, but not negligible.

| Apr 14, 2013

Another terrific performance from Brady Corbet, but it's in the service of a parade of horrors that never leads anywhere interesting.

| Apr 12, 2013

Simon Killer leaves you uneasy long before you wonder if Simon will get caught or find a conscience for his crimes, both real and imagined.

| Original Score: 5.6/10 | Apr 12, 2013