Brad Pitt's 'Killing Them Softly' deals with the financial difficulties of contract killers ★★★

In an ugly economy, murder becomes the last beautiful act. That's the state of the nation in "Killing Them Softly," a harsh and stimulating black comedy set in the recent past, starring Brad Pitt as a hit man hired to eliminate, in his own inimitable style, some underworld thieves in post-Katrina New Orleans.

Michael Phillips

November 29, 2012