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Critics Consensus: Destroyer's grueling narrative is as uncompromising as Nicole Kidman's central performance, which adds extra layers to a challenging film that leaves a lingering impact.
Critic Consensus: Destroyer's grueling narrative is as uncompromising as Nicole Kidman's central performance, which adds extra layers to a challenging film that leaves a lingering impact.
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Destroyer is a movie that confuses Kidman's unmodulated funk for actual depth. In fairness, a brooding depression may be the reality of much police work, but onscreen it plays like a two-hour murder of our patience.
It's been a while since we've had a Los Angeles on screen like this one.
Destroyer is hands down the best work Kidman has done yet, unafraid of inhabiting this incredibly raw character-one who is trying to understand pain in a new way, and it's definitely a movie you don't want to miss.
The particulars of the story are typical for the genre - a heist gone wrong, a slippery crime boss - but they're elevated to visceral levels by Kidman's hard-core performance...
Kidman's performance as this broken, obsessed woman is powerful. Breathless, rasping through her teeth, she conveys both vulnerability and intractability.
"Destroyer" feels like David Lynch directing a Michael Mann film, which is to say it's both not as entertaining as a Mann film and not as surreally intoxicating as a Lynch film.
A down-and-dirty walk on the wild side that few actresses ever take.
Director Karyn Kusama breaks with archaic ideas of the model feminine creating an uncomfortable and memorable character. [Full Review in Spanish]
Director Karyn Kusama's deft eye for grit and action gives Kidman a safe space to let loose in a way her previous roles have only hinted at.
Her [Kidman] performance... is a beacon in a film that tends to gets lost in its own convoluted plot. It makes Destroyer not just worth seeing, but worth revisiting, over and over again.
The longer the film goes on, the more it becomes apparent that there's barely enough substance here to support an Aesop's fable, let alone a Los Angeles crime epic.
There are a few good components going on in the film, most notably Kidman's brilliant and harrowed performance.
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