Movie review: Farrell, Kidman endure crucible of suffering in 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer'
Animal corpses tend to pile up with alarming regularity in the films of Yorgos Lanthimos - just ask the cat in "Dogtooth," or the dog in "The Lobster." (You can't, sorry. They're dead.) So imagine my surprise that no antlered beasts are slaughtered in "The Killing of a Sacred Deer," a lightly blood-spattered but technically immaculate nightmare of a movie that invites us to cackle alongside its director into the void.
The title, thankfully, is not a plot summary but a reference to the tale of Agamemnon, who killed a deer from Artemis' grove and was ordered to sacrifice his own daughter as a punishment. Even without that knowledge, you might be able to divine the
