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10/18/08
Killer of Sheep (1977)
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Reviews Counted:70
Fresh:68
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.8/10
Consensus: By turns funny, sad, and profound, Killer of Sheep offers a sympathetic and humane glimpse into inner-city life.
Theatrical Release:20-06-2008
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06/20/08
Top CriticA gritty, grainy slice of everyday lumpen American black struggle.
06/24/06
Top CriticNearly avant-garde in its purity
08/27/09
The fantastic thing about this beautiful film is how little it tries to make a statement about anything; it is, simply, life.
07/30/09
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02/27/09
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08/07/08
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03/28/08
Burnett is a truly unsung cinematic movie pioneer, clearly in the vanguard in that lonely and trying battle to colorize, so to speak, ideas and experiences in film with his body of unheralded visionary work.
01/26/08
A little known, long lost classic thankfully becomes available on DVD after decades of obscurity.
11/19/07
fills the screen with visual poetry that plays like intimate documentary
11/11/07
A film that is hard to forget.
11/09/07
It takes an eye-opening, unglamorous view of the black Los Angeles ghetto of the post-Watts riots.
10/29/07
There's a voyeuristic, woe-is-them quality to the film that makes me uncomfortable.
09/14/07
It may fill you with despair or offer up relief, but you will not be unmoved.
09/07/07
Burnett's empathy for his characters is obvious, and his carefully composed vignettes provide a host of indelible images...
08/31/07
As timeless as the human condition.
08/17/07
Don’t go to Killer of Sheep expecting a conventional movie experience. This is an art film, a realistic-yet-poetic examination of a time and place and the people stranded there.
08/03/07
Burnett's documentarian empathy, coupled with his easygoing skill as a dramatic essayist, result in a film that doesn't look, feel or breathe like any American work of its generation.
08/02/07
...his [Burnett's] tale about a south central Los Angeles neighborhood is stunning, and it holds up remarkably well.
07/20/07
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