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: 1,598 reviews
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May 9, 2012
We Need to Talk about Kevin is a study of the very nature of evil. A dissertation, if you will, on the factors that develop the personality of a human being. Can someone be born bad or is it learned? At the center is Tilda Swinton's performance. We feel sympathy, then outrage. At... read more
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March 26, 2012
We Need to Talk... is an over the top 'bad seed' horror movie masquerading as a art house indy about a social problem. It's consistenly absorbing, because of director Lynne Ramsay's penchant for original, mezmerizing images and because of its grotesque, melodramatic, incredible p... read more
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March 11, 2012
More than anything, this movie deserves an Oscar nomination for the colour red in the category of Best Actor in a Supporting Role. The film's dripping with subtle placements of red, whether in the form of paint, clothing or household furnishings. And yet there's very little actua... read more
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March 6, 2012fb573414556Beautiful and tense. 'We need to talk about Kevin is a seamless bled of drama and Horror with great acting, especially from the lead Tilda Swinton and Ezra Miller who plays her deranged son Kevin. This film is outstanding for both the eyes and the mind, and is the second best fil... read more
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March 4, 2012fb1378820053Tense, suspenseful psychological thriller. We Need to to Talk about Kevin will linger over you for days on end Kevin ( Erza Miller) is terrifying from the day he is born. Brilliant Acting from Tilda Swinton, Erza Miller and John C Reilly and a Brilliant Directing from Lynne Ramsa... read more
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March 2, 2012
a tough film to watch, the dominant thread being a terrific performance by tilda swinton as the guilt ridden mother of sociopathic kevin. the flashback structure is initially a little confusing but the film soon becomes a train wreck from which one cannot look away. i'm a fan o... read more
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February 21, 2012
Tilda Swinton delivers a tour-de-force performance as a mother dealing with her first-born, cruel son. We Need to Talk About Kevin is a blend of mystery, drama, and horror, and the use of symbolism adds a great effect. We see the film through the eyes of Eva (Tilda Swinton). I... read more
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February 19, 2012
They certainly did need to talk about Kevin. I'm fine with difficult subject matter and ambiguous storytelling. But this film just seemed lazy in its search for answers. Tilda Swinton plays a mother that is haunted by something in her past. Her son is in jail, the whole town hate... read more
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February 14, 2012
A very interesting and questioning piece which reveals a little more each shot. Although slow, it keeps you guessing (if you haven't read the book) what has/is going to happen. The use of the colour red is slightly over the top but still very important, as if Eva's life has been ... read more
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February 8, 2012
Scottish director Lynne Ramsay made her debut with the working class Glaswegian drama "Ratcatcher" in 1999. It was seen as an artistic breakthrough for independent cinema in Scotland but sadly it didn't really catch on. She followed it up with "Morven Caller" in 2002 but no-one c... 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
There's no equivocating ... over the excellence of the acting by Swinton and casting find Ezra Miller Full Review
Nothing seared my consciousness like the stunning work from Tilda Swinton in "We Need to Talk About Kevin." Full Review
The boy (played by a trio of child actors) is so unremittingly evil that the movie begins to feel like a grotesque remake of that old John Ritter comedy Problem Child. Full Review
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