Fresh
Daniel Radcliffe is back in a pair of nerdy specs as Allen Ginsberg in this sincere, heartfelt film about how the gay beat poet found his voice
Cath Clarke, Time Out
Kill Your Darlings
A true story of obsession and murder.
2013 · 1h 43m · R
Drama, Romance, Thriller
Directed by
John Krokidas
Overview
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Director and cast
- John Krokidas Director
- Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg
- Elizabeth Olsen as Edie Parker
- Michael C. Hall as David Kammerer
- Ben Foster as William Burroughs
- Dane DeHaan as Lucien Carr
- Jack Huston as Jack Kerouac
- Jennifer Jason Leigh as Naomi Ginsberg
- Kyra Sedgwick as Marian Carr
- David Cross as Louis Ginsberg
- David Rasche as Dean
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
76%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Bursting with hipster attitude and New York atmosphere, the fact-based "Kill Your Darlings" is a coming-of-age chronicle that morphs into a crime story without missing a beat.
Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fresh
You don't need to know the Beats to understand "Kill Your Darlings," you just need to know the twinkling promise, and dark turns, of life.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Rotten
Overall the movie seems to wander, like the worst excesses of free verse, needing a little structure to rein it in.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Fresh
"Kill Your Darlings" is a true-crime murder mystery, a love letter to the wild-living artists of the Beat Generation, and a portrait of the artist as an adolescent.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
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