Critic Reviews
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Richard Brody, New Yorker
Under the guise of current events, Skolimowski artfully conjures an elemental archetype of human life itself. In English, Polish, and Arabic.
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Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Stripped of its political vestments, Essential Killing is a chase film almost existential in its rawness and virtually silent in its unfolding -- just a pursued man reduced by circumstance to a primitive state.
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Peter Howell, Toronto Star
View it as an existential thriller illustrating how violence begets violence.
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Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
The movie deftly shifts from its initial chase thriller mode to a grueling, offbeat tale of human survival.
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Budd Wilkins, Slant Magazine
Stark and stripped-down, Jerzy Skolomowski's Essential Killing is a fatalistic fable eschewing the political in favor of the existential, now available in a fittingly barebones DVD package from New Video.
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