Critic Reviews

• Guy Lodge, Time Out

  Cue a lot of inscrutable double-crossing, 'Murder She Wrote'-level suspense and endless recitations of Handel's 'Messiah' - well, you have to class things up somehow.

• Tom Dawson, Total Film

  Writer-director's Jerome Le Gris' sub-Hitchcockian thriller piles up the genre clichés to the point where you assume the whole enterprise must be an Agatha Christie-style parody.

• Philip French, Observer [UK]

  A precocious French schoolboy's idea of sophistication, the film is as deep and as brittle as a coating of glossy nail varnish.

• Matthew Turner, ViewLondon

  Ludicrous thriller that almost qualifies for so-bad-it's-good status, thanks to a nonsensical script, poor performances and dreadful direction.

• Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK]

  Mélanie Laurent glides with L'Oréal serenity through this entirely terrible film as Lucrèce, an ice-cold assassin.

• Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph

  [A] startlingly ludicrous hit-girl thriller, in which Mélanie Laurent must go undercover as an opera singer to off a fellow soloist.

• Bethany Rutter, Little White Lies

  Lazy and futile.

• Shaun Munro, What Culture

  Virtually defining style over substance, Requiem for a Killer disappoints on almost all fronts.

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