Admit One 11/30

Killing Them Softly

Starring: Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins, James Gandolfini, Scott McNairy, BEn Mendelsohn

Directed by: Andrew Dominik

Plot: A trio of bumbling thieves manage to rip of a mob sponsored poker game and enforcer Jackie Cogan is brought in to track  them down and recover the money.

Rotten Tomatoes Freshness: 81%

Critic Consensus: “Killing Them Softly is a darkly comic and sometimes brutally visceral film that succeeds on the strengths of its punchy dialogue and a solid performance from Brad Pitt, even if its message is a bit muddy”

The Collection

Starring: Emma Fitzpatrick, Josh Stewart, Christopher McDonald, Lee Tergesen, Navi Rawat, Johanna E Brady

Directed by: Marcus Dunstan

Plot: The vicious serial killer known as The Collector abducts a young girl from a nightclub and holds her in abandoned warehouse he’s rigged with traps and a team of mercenaries is hired by the girl’s father to rescue her.  The mercenaries bring along Arkin, the only man to have survived The Collector.

RT Freshness: 46%

Critic Consensus: “The Collection expands on the world of its predecessor, offering more grisly, gratuitous thrills and twisted humor; in other words, fun for fans of the genre, but potentially unpleasant for anyone else”