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We Need to Talk About Kevin

2011 Directed by Lynne Ramsay

Mummy's little monster…

After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.

Tilda Swinton John C. Reilly Ezra Miller Jasper Newell Rock Duer Ashley Gerasimovich Siobhan Fallon Hogan Alex Manette Kenneth Franklin Leslie Lyles Paul Diomede Michael Campbell J. Mallory McCree Mark Elliot Wilson James Chen Lauren Fox Blake DeLong Andy Gershenzon Kelly Wade Ursula Parker Jason Shelton Simon MacLean Erin Darke Annie O'Sullivan Georgia X. Lifsher Aaron Blakely Polly Adams Suzette Gunn Joseph Melendez Show All…

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Review by there is no howie only zuul ★★★★ 1

what i REALLY wanna talk about is how miss. lynne ramsay expects me to believe that john c reilly and tilda swinton made EZRA MILLER??? What.... what?? thats the real fuckin mystery yall lets talk about THAT
Review by Hollie Horror ★★★★½ 27

Tilda Swinton is the perfect actress in my eyes. You must be a chameleon adapting to whatever role is given to you. It is not just in her slightly androgynous appearance and demeanor but in her natural gift to act, she is perfect.

Like a wounded and terrified animal running on guilt and hindsight, Eva (Swinton) is barely living, flinching at the sound of her own name.

The United States has had its fair share of massacres at schools across the country. There have also been numerous films made, some based on reality, others in fantasy but the one thing they all have in common is the exploitative nature, focusing on the massacre itself. This is where We Need to…
Review by brat pitt ★★★★ 1

spoiler alert: they never talk about kevin
Review by DirkH ★★★★ 74

The main reason I put off watching this for so long is its source material. Lionel Shriver's novel is an amazing piece of fiction that gnaws on your soul by asking the toughest questions imaginable without granting its readers the comfort of easy answers. It explores the age old discussion on nature versus nurture. It does so by relating a story about a boy committing an evil deed, presented through a series of letters written by the boy‘s mother. She is constantly asking herself whether it is her fault that her son is the way he is or whether he was born evil. It also shows how something like a high-school shooting affects a community, but moreover the family members…
Review by Lucy ★★★★

do we really need to talk about him though? do we really?
Review by Jeff ★★★ 8

Excellent film to watch with your wife and 10-day-old son on a sunny, Sunday afternoon.

Recent reviews

Review by emilyanne ★★★★

Wow the ending, a slap in the face. Very good! So interestingly done, cutting to different periods of her life. Props to Tilda, Ezra, and Jasper Newell for they’re amazing acting.
Review by jazzmansam ★★★

Up there with Eraserhead and Baby Geniuses for "movies that make you never want to have children".
Review by anisalbhr ★★★★

UH-MAZING ACTING .
all the scenes were perfectly shot in order to get the message across of how helpless the mother felt about Kevin and how lonely she was in dealing with him .
The first few shots of the film showing the life of the mother after the incident with hate thrown at her in many different ways whether she realises it or not are bone-chillingly good .
The final act when Kevin’s face finally fell infront of her mother showing for the first time another emotion aside from pure hatred and heinous intention was confusing to me as i did not know to feel either sad or satisfied .
really , really great acting in this film .
and good cinematography!!!!!!
Review by FilipN ★★★★

Awesome camera work. Interesting visuals. Great acting.
Review by michaeldmcclain ★★★★½

We Need to Talk About How Tilda Swinton Should Have a Second Oscar Or At Least a Second Nomination for We Need to Talk About Kevin.
Review by thea ★★★★

we need to talk about kevin’s shirts
Review by gan ★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

The Kevin Katchadourian presented here is soulless. He’s utterly inhuman, to the point of comedy. Through Miller’s portrayal he takes on a twitchy, grinning, horror-villain quality. He is a patient evil inserted in this happy family’s life so that we might watch them fall apart around him, and this abiding evil leeches into every scene in the film. Kevin’s bout of meningitis in the source material serves to reveal his true self—that he deeply hates life, and hates his mother for bringing him into it, and when made too exhausted by illness to hate his mother properly he has no choice but to cling to her instead. In the film this scene is merely thrown to us, and we are…
Review by Elizabeth King ★★★★

fuck they really didn’t fucking talk about kevin....
Review by Rob McNeil ★★★★½

In desperate need of something funny right now, but also in awe of how Lynne Ramsay is a master director