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  Review by k(arst)en ★★★★ 1

  hot man

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  Review by the film drunk ★★★★ 6

  Incoming Letterboxd reviews saying “it’s a hit, man!” with 25,000 likes

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  Review by David Sims ★★★★ 1

  linklater noir about how all americans have a hot psychopath in em somewhere? yes

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  Review by Ella Kemp ★★★★

  Glen Powell is literally Ken, every single version of him, a man made in a lab (definitely) to charm all the mums and the murderers and also me (definitely). It’s also so funny to have even the fake concept of a hit man handled by Linklater where the vibe is just like… alright! Someone might kill someone! Let’s just keep a good vibe going! And they do, the thing is that they so do!

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★ 3

  I vaguely knew the fake undercover sting operation hitman premise of this going in and it delivered on it with all the smart, breezy humor and meta-fantasy performance roleplaying I was hoping for that comes with allowing Powell to construct his various personas and disguises; I know some people have been on this train since Everybody Wants Some but yeah the dude might be a star. However, what I wasn't expecting was for it to also be a genuinely sexy and disturbing romcom where playful, lustful excitement and philosophical ideas about identity/self-actualization (and the social concept of the death penalty?) get perversely wrapped up in a crime thriller-murder context in the way Hitchcock used to do all the time. There's…

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★

  Based on a 2001 Texas Monthly article by Skip Hollandsworth, Richard Linklater’s breezily amusing “Hit Man” — one of those laugh-light comedies that bills itself as “a somewhat true story” — begins with a premise that requires a greater suspension of disbelief than many people might be able to muster.

  Can you believe that a straight-laced New Orleans college professor named Gary Johnson, a sexless birder who lives alone with his cats and drives a Honda Civic, could start moonlighting as a phony hit man for the local police? Sure. Can you believe, as we’re told, that Gary is so good at luring customers into confessing their intended crimes because his face is as forgettable as his name? Maybe, but…

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  Review by iana ★★★½

  a film created with the sole intent of making glen powell unspeakably hot

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  Review by pipebomb ★★★★½

  what if Barry was an academy award nominated film instead of a show, extremely hilarious. one of linklater's best. incredibly fun.

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  Review by Bilge Ebiri ★★★★★ 3

  In a festival where philosophizing hitmen have revealed the tedium and current poverty of the subgenre, leave it to Richard Linklater to make the ultimate philosophizing hitman movie (the protagonist is literally a philosophy teacher) and somehow end up with a masterpiece. 

  Full review: www.vulture.com/2023/09/richard-linklaters-hit-man-will-make-glen-powell-a-star.html

  Seen at Sala Grande, Venice Film Festival

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  Review by AmandaTheJedi ★★★★

  I want to be Ron

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  Review by Brian Tallerico ★★★★

  So that’s what star power looks like. Really dig this movie’s vibe, which doesn’t feel like it’s often a thing anymore. Reminded me of Out of Sight, which is an all-time fave.

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  Review by Chandler Levack ★★★★★

  An actual fucking delight.