How to Make a Killing

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How to Make a Killing

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Disowned at birth by his obscenely wealthy family, blue-collar Becket Redfellow (Glen Powell) will stop at nothing to reclaim his inheritance, no matter how many relatives stand in his way.

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Deploying Glen Powell's magnetic likability to head-scratching ends, this tonally bizarre comedic thriller wants to eat its rich and have it, too.

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Katie Walsh

Tribune News Service

10h

2/4

Unfortunately, this "Killing" just isn’t the windfall that was expected.

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Peter Travers

The Travers Take

1d

2.5/4

In this sadly stunted comic thriller, a delightfully depraved Glen Powell must kill seven of his family members to inherit $28 billion. Would you? By the end, the film commits the worst crime of all by killing our interest.

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Keith Uhlich

(All (Parentheses)) (Substack)

1d

The bastard offspring of a Mad Libs-’n’-Chat GPT prompt: Kind Hearts and Coronets remake set in the world of Succession and starring Glen Powell. Result: Not terrible!

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Andrew Parker

The Gate

10h

3/10

[It's] obvious that Powell has a certain leading man comfort zone that he’s not yet willing to leave, which is a detriment to a film that should be playing as a more empowering take on something like American Psycho and not a bland, half-speed comedy.

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Rachel Wagner

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1d

I would give it a mild recommendation

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Prabhjot Bains

RANGE Magazine

1d

Plot holes, conveniences, and contrivances riddle the breezy 115-minute runtime, but feel trivial in the face of Glen Powell’s supercharged charisma, which relishes each slick, surface-level twist and turn with acerbic precision.

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TheDude

50m

Fun morality story. Powell shines.

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Mel P

2h

This was boring and uninteresting.

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Conall R

3h

I give America a lot of crap for not making films as good as Asia does…but this was a better offing-people-to-get-ahead-in-society movie than “No Other Choice”.

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Elianna

3h

nothing makes me happier than two psychos driving each other crazy

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Joy W

4h

If you like movies about terrible people that don’t make sense, this is for you.

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Shannon J

4h

I loved it!!! Definitely worth the watch.

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Synopsis

Disowned at birth by his obscenely wealthy family, blue-collar Becket Redfellow (Glen Powell) will stop at nothing to reclaim his inheritance, no matter how many relatives stand in his way.

Director: John Patton Ford
Producer: Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin
Screenwriter: John Patton Ford
Distributor: A24
Production Co: StudioCanal, Blueprint Pictures
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 20, 2026, Wide
Runtime: 1h 45m

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