Movie review: In 'Killing of a Sacred Deer,' Colin Farrell stars as a doctor plagued by dilemma
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Oct 26, 2017
3 minutes
With his fifth feature, and his first shot in America, the Greek writer-director-absurdist Yorgos Lanthimos has reached the intersection of tremendous skill and vague frustration.
There's nothing vague about the narrative of "The Killing of a Sacred Deer." Its strangeness is crystal clear. It plays out in ways both sardonically funny and extremely cruel. The acting is uniformly superb within the filmmaker's preferred, emotionally deadpan parameters; the telling of the
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