Tacticalin An absolute waste of money

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Catherina If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Kena Medeiros I watched this movie a little while ago purely because Daniel Radcliffe is in it and I was pleasantly surprised to learn that it was actually a fantastic movie. Daniel portrays Allen so well and I think they couldn't have cast a better actor for the role. The character Lucien was also amazing. Dane did wonderfully in this movie. I loved him in Lawless but I definitely like him more here. This movie instantly became one of my favourite movies and I plan to watch it multiple times. Truly amazing film. I highly recommend it. If you like any movie about poets, you will like it. If you like modern movies set in older decades, you will like it. I wish everyone would go out and buy this movie. I don't think it got enough credit for how wonderful it truly is. If you have not seen this yet, please do yourself a favor and watch it.

Irishchatter Well done to Daniel Radcliffe for putting on the accent, he really suited the role for playing a Jewish poet whom I never in my life heard of! Wow, I tell ya, Allen Ginsberg had such a roller coaster love life with Lucien Carr. He really fell for such a bad boy didn't he?Mind you, I'm glad he wasn't with him anymore because he was a bad influence on him especially interrupting him with his education at Columbia university and the fact, his poor mother was sent in a Nuthouse all thanks to his dimwitted father! Sure the poor guy had enough on his plate without getting involved with Lucien, he probably would have a better life if he completed his education and look after the mother as best he can. Although it's good to have a love life too but not someone who isn't worth your time! Unfortunately he did get too involved with Lucien. At least he had a long time partner who was Mr Peter Orlovsky,a person that was also a poet and didn't seem to be a bad ol boy! He should've been with him from the very start even!I find the film was really chilling and it shows a very troubled love story between Lucien and Allen......

Dan1863Sickles KILL YOUR DARLINGS isn't just one bad movie, it's five bad movies! There are so many stories it does not tell, so many themes it cannot explore, so much overall phoniness and shallow ignorance of life, the universe, and everything.It's not a moving coming-of-age story. Nor a thoughtful analysis of Allen Ginsberg's poetry. Nor an evocative film about the World War II era. Nor a chilling crime drama, even though the climax involves a brutal stabbing. Nor a stark, uncompromising look at the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse, even though every single character is presented as some kind of addict. Nor an honest and candid exploration of the social pressures of college life then or now. There were at least five or six good movies you could have made with this material, and instead they made this foul sewage. As I watched this movie, I kept wondering if I was being unfair. I mean, given how vile all the characters are, and how ugly and sad the ending is, could anyone have done a better job? But then I thought of THE BASKETBALL DIARIES, based on the life of Jim Carroll, starring Mark Wahlberg and Leonardo DiCaprio. Ugly scenes of drug abuse? Brutally real violence? The emptiness of higher education stripped bare? Homosexuality right in your face? It's all there, but in THE BASKETBALL DIARIES the stakes are much higher. These people really matter. Even the poetry sounds better!KILL YOUR DARLINGS could have been a good movie. But it wasn't. And by the way, the "Beat" movement was not a club for gay men. Plenty of gay men hated the Beats. And plenty of Beats hated gay men. There was no love lost between Truman Capote and Jack Kerouac. In fact, Truman Capote famously said of Kerouac's ON THE ROAD, "that's not writing, that's typing." It's movies like this that give teenage homosexual murderers a bad name.

Sarah Kenny I can't begin to answer this question. Kill Your Darlings is somewhat a coming-of-age film about Alan, a wannabe poet, entering the world of university and encountering a dark-humoured, romantic boy-with-a-past, Lucien. This part is pretty predictable, and what comes immediately after is also somewhat to the book. However, KYD will most likely touch you in some deep place if, like me, you enjoy black comedy, rebellion, and wannabe revolutionaries. There is everything to enjoy about this movie, and, what's more, it's based on a true story, so the story doesn't end once the credits start rolling. Don't you just love a film where you can do a little research? I do! Cinematography is wonderful, dialogue is beautiful, and Dane DeHaan is fantastic as always. I was close to giving it ten stars, but since I've literally just finished watching it, I thought I'd let my starry-eyed-ness die down a little before reaching a concrete verdict. Eight stars it is.