Film reviews: How to Make a Killing is stylish, elegant, and blackly comic

The offbeat serial-killer comedy asks us to suspend our morality and root for the ruthless, cold-blooded killer.
Film reviews: How to Make a Killing is stylish, elegant, and blackly comic

Glen Powell in How To Make A Killing

Fri, 13 Mar, 2026 - 12:00
Declan Burke

How To Make a Killing 

★★★★☆

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