Kill Your Friends

Directed by Owen Harris. With Nicholas Hoult, Thomas Conroy, James Corden, Georgia King. An A&R man working at the height of the Britpop music craze goes to extremes in order to find his next hit.

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Starting as a knives-out music-business satire before careening off the deep end into the sort of scorched-earth, nuance-free nihilism that makes Chuck Palahniuk look like Whit Stillman, the film has razor-sharp grace notes and a seductive stylishness that can’t override its relentlessly adolescent worldview

Parents need to know that Kill Your Friends is supposed to be a dark comedy about greedy, cynical corporate types in the music business, but it's more depressing than funny. It's most definitely not for kids; the violence, sex, language, drinking, and drug content are all extremely strong. There are bloody, brutal murders, toplessness, a threesome, and characters with multiple casual sex partners. Language includes near-constant use of "f--k," plus "c--t," "s--t," "t-ts," and many other words. Characters drink almost constantly, as well as smoke, snort cocaine, and sometimes go on other drug binges. Consequences are few, and no lessons are learned. This type of thing was done much better in American Psycho and The Wolf of Wall Street.

It’s amusingly slick and mean for a while, but ultimately the film’s one-note nihilism grows numbing, and its stylish visuals and well-chosen soundtrack can only do so much to keep it lively.

London, 1997; the British music industry is on a winning streak. Britpop bands Blur, Oasis, Radiohead rule the airwaves and Cool Britannia is in full swing. 27-year-old hit chasing A&R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music business, a world where careers are made and broken by chance and the fickle tastes of the general public. In an industry of dream-makers, Stelfox refuses to buy into the 'dream' - and despises anyone that does. Fueled by greed, ambition and inhuman quantities of drugs, Stelfox searches for his next hit record amid a relentless orgy of self-gratification. Created by an industry that demands success at any price, Stelfox takes the concept of 'killer tunes' to a murderous new level in a desperate attempt to salvage his career. Balanced against the backdrop of the music business and its characters, Stelfox is the ultimate anti-hero: chronically sexist, racist, and everything else-ist.

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Thanks to a strong performance by Nicholas Hoult, Kill Your Friends keeps threatening to become more dynamic and self-critical than its final result.

X-Men star Nicholas Hoult plays a killer A&R man who will stop at nothing to reach the top in this brutal, foul-mothed music industry satire.

Kill Your Friends is a film directed by Owen Harris with Nicholas Hoult, James Corden, Rosanna Arquette, Craig Roberts, .... Year: 2015. Original title: Kill Your Friends. Synopsis: An A&R man working at the height of the Britpop music craze goes to extremes in order to find his next hit.

Kill Your Friends is a 2015 British dark comedy crime-thriller film directed by Owen Harris, script written by John Niven based on his own written 2008 novel of the same name. The film stars Nicholas Hoult, Craig Roberts, Tom Riley, and Georgia King.[3] The film was selected to be shown in the City to City section of the 2015 Toronto Film Festival.[4] The film was released on 6 November 2015 by StudioCanal.