Karyn Kusama's restless noir 'Destroyer' uncovers an L.A. — and a Nicole Kidman — you haven't seen before
TORONTO - In director Karyn Kusama's "Destroyer" - a restless, brutal piece of hard-boiled neo-noir that blazes across a Los Angeles only real Angelenos might recognize - an LAPD detective haunts the city in search of answers, maybe even something resembling peace, long buried far beneath the surface.
But the path to justice is dark and twisty, traversing the underbelly of modern-day L.A. to the desert, where once, years ago, an undercover job gone wrong changed everything. In Kusama's "Destroyer," the City of Angels is littered with physical carnage, spiritual decay, corruption, violence and neglect, and the only way forward is a reckoning with the past.
At the heart of it all, in a transformative performance already garnering Oscar buzz, is Nicole Kidman as the dogged and dangerous Det. Erin Bell. It's not just a rare story centered on a female lead in the
