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Gore-Flecked 'Why Don't You Just Die!' Is Brutally Fun

Writer/director Kirill Sokolov's stylish and exuberant black comedy involves a corrupt cop, his would-be killer and a sardonic take on contemporary life in Russia.
Yevgenich (Michael Gor) and Matvey (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) look sanguine in <em>Why Don't You Just Die!</em>

It's never a good portent when a stranger arrives at your door with a hammer hidden behind his back. That's how Matvei (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) greets his girlfriend's father, Andrei (Vitaliy Khaev), at the opening of Matvei's intentions are pretty evident, but would have been even more obvious if this exuberant black comedy's English title were a literal translation of the

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