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Film · 1956 · Film noir
The Killing
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
1956
★ 6.2 editorial score
Kubrick was twenty-seven and this is where he became Kubrick: a racetrack robbery told out of order, doubling back to catch each man's hour, thirty years before that felt like a style.
“Every split second counts at the racetrack, where fortunes are won and lost in as much time and the smallest decisions carry a built-in intensity few other locations can claim. "The Killing", a blisteringly taut decimation of post-WWII entitlement, understands this better than any other crime film...[it] transports the dancing moral contortions of film noir to the pressure-cooker atmosphere of the track, infusing them together with dread-inducing temporal uncertainty.”
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1956Depicts 1950s
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