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Film · 1955 · Film noir
Kiss Me Deadly
Directed by Robert Aldrich
1955
★ 4.9 editorial score
Film noir's meanest specimen: Robert Aldrich turned Mickey Spillane's detective into a thug worse than the criminals he chases, and gave the genre an ending nobody in 1955 was ready for.
“If "Kiss Me Deadly" were a brand-new film, it would still be shocking in its mean spirit, its happy brutality and its audacious mix of real and surreal elements. That it was made in 1955 makes the picture all the more astonishing. At its core is not just caustic humor but an uneasiness about the value of human life and the nature of the universe.”
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