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Kill The Messenger
A real story is about journalist Gary Webb (Jeremy Reiner), who is investigating the role of US intelligence in exporting huge quantities of cocaine in US territory, which was sold to fund the rebel army in Nicaragua, The discovery of these facts by the Web reveals them in public, exposing them to many problems and putting them in danger.
12 December 1996, New York City, New York, USA
18 February 1971
9 January 1965, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
14 July 1913, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
24 March 1986, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
5 February 1969, Newport, Gwent, Wales, UK
22 November 1966, Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
8 June 1967, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
1 March 1949, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
11 May 1964, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
May 12, 2015
The muddled movie contains all the elements of a top-notch muckraker, deployed erratically and to increasingly diminished returns.
March 07, 2015
Jeremy Renner is on terrific form... but the rest of the movie doesn't quite live up to his impressively nuanced performance.
October 10, 2014
Drugs, government, truths, mustaches. "Kill the Messenger" is an admirable journalism thriller that takes on a lot of big subjects.
February 26, 2016
The film doesn't demand that you now respect Webb or sing his praises, but it does ask you to look at the cracks in that tranquil façade, and to keep looking, no matter how much it seems to fracture.
October 10, 2014
It's oversold and under-reported. But Kill the Messenger flies high on Jeremy Renner's all-stops-out performance as 1990s-era journalist Gary Webb. Flaws aside, the film inspires a moral outrage that feels disconcertingly timely.
March 08, 2015
It's sporadically gripping but ultimately rather frustrating fare, leaving us intrigued enough by the conspiracy-theory backstory to want hard documentary evidence rather than mere dramatic licence.
April 06, 2016
The script by former journalist Peter Landesman, who recently directed the medical drama Concussion, does a good job of simplifying a complex real-life chain of events.
October 10, 2014
The story of a crusading reporter's determined search for truth, "Kill The Messenger" gains its not-inconsiderable power by not being the kind of movie that particular description might lead you to expect.
October 14, 2014
Kill the Messenger does a credible if not dazzling job. In fact, the movie is a lot like the reporting that inspired it: a good introduction to a diabolically tangled tale.
October 10, 2014
A resonant journalistic cautionary tale gets packaged as a hokey thriller in Kill the Messenger, a movie with a message that isn't nearly as urgent as it needs to be.