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Kill Your Darlings
Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan and Ben Foster, this biographical romantic drama tells the story of Allen Ginsberg, a Beat Generation icon who along with his two fellows, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, is involved in the investigation of a murder in 1944.
2 March 1930, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
8 November 1965, West Covina, California, USA
14 February 1981, Yalta, Crimean Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Crimea, Ukraine]
5 February 1962, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 August 1965, New York City, New York, USA
16 August 1964, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, USA
7 December 1982, London, England, UK
7 August 1944, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
16 February 1989, Sherman Oaks, California, USA
26 March 1947, New York City, New York, USA
23 July 1989, Fulham, London, England, UK
29 October 1980, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
April 12, 2016
Beat movies are just a sign that a new wave of such whiners has arrived to see them, and, because movies take years to make, is probably already progressing beyond the adolescent obsessions that the moviemakers thought to capitalize on.October 01, 2014
Kill Your Darlings is by no means perfect, but it's an ambitious and promising first film that gives a handful of young actors the chance to work with a director who has a great deal on his mind.October 01, 2014
The best thing about the enthralling, super-smart Kill Your Darlings is director John Krokidas's ability to capture the excitement of young men's minds on fire.August 10, 2016
Krokidas' film takes a wisely neutral view of the tale, meaning that we get to both revel in the lads' transgressions and see how all this indulgence can turn sour.October 10, 2014
Few [Harry] Potter fans will be tempted to chance their luck while most adults will be left with fearsomely bright but relatively unlovable characters.November 14, 2013
Overall the movie seems to wander, like the worst excesses of free verse, needing a little structure to rein it in.May 20, 2016
The sensual chemistry between Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan is fantastic, just occasionally upstaged by Ben Foster, who does a great job capturing the voice and mannerisms of the dry Burroughs.December 02, 2013
Daniel Radcliffe is back in a pair of nerdy specs as Allen Ginsberg in this sincere, heartfelt film about how the gay beat poet found his voiceNovember 14, 2013
"Kill Your Darlings" is a true-crime murder mystery, a love letter to the wild-living artists of the Beat Generation, and a portrait of the artist as an adolescent.November 14, 2013
Dramatizing a passion for the written word on film can be tricky, but in his feverish Kill Your Darlings, first-time director John Krokidas brings creative desire to life with vigor and emotion.November 22, 2013
You don't need to know the Beats to understand "Kill Your Darlings," you just need to know the twinkling promise, and dark turns, of life.November 26, 2013
Bursting with hipster attitude and New York atmosphere, the fact-based "Kill Your Darlings" is a coming-of-age chronicle that morphs into a crime story without missing a beat.