Tilda Swinton,
John C. Reilly,
Ezra Miller,
Ashley Gerasimovich,
Ursula Parker
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A suspenseful and gripping psychological thriller, Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin explores the factious relationship between a mother and her son. Tilda Swinton, in a bracing, tour-de-forc... read more
Directed by: Lynne Ramsay
Release Date: January 13, 2012
DVD Release Date: May 29, 2012
Stats: 2,684 reviews
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December 30, 2012
Way better than I expected. I found this quite complicated and I struggled to know who to sympathize with. To start with, I pitied the mother with her difficult son who she found it hard to bond with. I guess my view is a little different to most females on this, as it does make... read more
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October 8, 2012
You have to praise "We Need To Talk About Kevin" for not wanting to go down the creepy kid horror movie route that so many recent films have gone down. By not cheapening the subject matter to a series of jolts and creepy scares it allows the film to try to be a thought-provoking... read more
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August 20, 2012
The very beginning gives a hint that the director is attempting to offer something different. Unfortunately, I don't have a taste for that different artistic cinema. The pace with which the movie progresses & the screenplay (I haven't read the book the movie is based on as yet, n... read more
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August 7, 2012
While it would be trite to make a joke about how we need to talk about this film right now, Lynne Ramseyâ(TM)s We Need to Talk About Kevin does need to be properly digested. First off, we should get something out of the way. Tilda Swinton is a national treasure. That is all we ne... read more
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July 31, 2012
Lynne Ramsay's latest film is a tour de force of economy. There's not a single shot wasted. Brilliantly structured, incredibly taut with a shattering tension throughout. Not a moment goes by that isn't informing, telling the story, adding to the cumulative exploration of a dysfun... read more
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July 29, 2012
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If your looking for an incredibly disturbing blend of gripping drama and eery horror you need not look further than We Need To Talk About Kevin. Possibly the most fascinating film of 2012. Tilda Swinton d... read more -
July 22, 2012fb791220692Brutal and uncompromising, "We Need to Talk About Kevin" is one of the few movies to truly get under my skin. It's an unpleasant experience, but Tilda Swinton's dizzyingly depressing performance makes it hard to not be enthralled from beginning to end. There are a few irksome log... read more
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July 22, 2012
Although Swinton was great as the dazed Eva. Her incapability to connect with her son is sad, but not heartbreaking. I couldn't connect with Kevin or Eva, their characters are both so cold.
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July 11, 2012
Omg....This is one completely unsettling movie! Definitely more for people that enjoy a little bizarre in their films. Explores the inscrutability of sociopaths; most troubling is that they may just be born that way. Credit to the director for the ability to present very young ch... read more
Critic Reviews
Director Ramsay makes Kevin's impact all the more felt by coming at it from all angles. Full Review
It's a hallmark of "Kevin's" emotional bravery and intellectual honesty that the questions haunt us long after the end credits roll. Full Review
Some movies punish you, but you take it because you're getting something out of the bargain: an insight, a performance, art, adrenaline. Then there are the movies that punish you for the heck of it. Full Review
Ramsay may be aiming for a character study of Kevin, but she ends up merely listing the ingredients needed to make a murderer. Full Review
Lynne Ramsay's thoughtful, unnerving film works its strange power over viewers who are likely to find themselves as compelled as repelled by its fatally flawed key players. Full Review
The narrative strategy amounts to little more than film-school strenuousness, and in the end it can't conceal the movie's essential crudeness - its coarse, artless dialogue, blank character writing an... Full Review
Ramsay, filming in lurid reds and unblinking close-ups, lets no one off the hook here; this is truly a domestic horror story, with no easy answers and nobody blameless. Full Review
Tilda Swinton is the star of We Need to Talk About Kevin, and her performance is so complex and volcanic and transfixing that all of the film's flaws melt away. Full Review
There's no equivocating ... over the excellence of the acting by Swinton and casting find Ezra Miller Full Review
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