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

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

The performances of Brady Corbet as the taciturn American and Mati Diop as the sympathetic prostitute lend the film watchability ...

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

Brutal, nasty, unflinching. If you like that kind of thing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 11, 2013

An artfully shot, po-faced thriller about an American graduate student going to pieces on an extended break in Paris.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 11, 2013

It is brutally raw and difficult watching.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 11, 2013

The overall sense
of chilly disengagement becomes trying, and there's a last-minute switch that suggests that Campos is trying to have his croissant and eat it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 10, 2013

Black-veined and dark-hearted, this is another persuasive character study from Campos.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 8, 2013

The quietly unsettling "Simon Killer" asks us to study its main character, a screwed-up enigma, who can't get out of the way of his own self-destructive tendencies.

| Apr 5, 2013

The film is frequently masterful, suggesting the turbulent inner state of an American sociopath who believes himself to be a good guy.

| Apr 5, 2013

A noirish character study of a young American in Paris, "Simon Killer" chillingly combines the classic amoral drifter out of James M. Cain with a very contemporary figure - the overemotional, overeducated, spineless slacker.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 5, 2013

Though the film's ice-cold blend of the cerebral and the atavistic can be off-putting, it enables a queasy portrait of moral disengagement that lingers long after Simon has slipped from the screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 5, 2013

The unusual shooting style and tendency to go to dark and uncomfortable places will undoubtedly lose some along the way, but for the rest, it's a twisted experience that'll undoubtedly leave a mark.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2013

Sort of "An American Psycho's European Vacation," this indie dramatic thriller mixes sex and violence and still winds up dull.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 4, 2013

brooding and mesmerizing

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 4, 2013

A relentless and largely unrewarding descent into an ostensibly personal hell.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 4, 2013

An aesthetically fussed-over, feel-bad character study-the ugly American narrative rejiggered for Generation Hipster.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2013

If Simon Killer's tragic drift is predictable, the seedy particulars still engross.

| Apr 3, 2013

Bleakly enigmatic about the motives of its psychotic protagonist, "Simon Killer" gets cozy with one man's pathological rage.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 2, 2013