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  1. Destroyer is a 2018 American neo-noir crime drama film directed by Karyn Kusama, written and co-produced by Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi, and starring Nicole Kidman with Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany, Scoot McNairy, Bradley Whitford, and Sebastian Stan. The film follows a former undercover police officer (Kidman), who takes revenge against members of a gang, years after her case was blown.

  2. Sep 30, 2024 · The strong performances from Stan and Kidman elevate Destroyer from being a fairly straightforward B-movie into an incendiary, uncompromising reinvention of the neo-noir genre. Even under the ...

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  3. Sep 13, 2018 · Nicole Kidman shatters noir conventions and makes a heroine who is truly hardboiled and hardly functional in Destroyer. Dennis Hopper once said that noir is every director’s favorite genre ...

  4. Jan 24, 2019 · "Destroyer" is a worthwhile film, especially for moviegoers who love film noir in all its phases: The hard-boiled Bogart era, the nihilist takes of the 1960s and '70s, the neon-lit productions of ...

  5. Jan 8, 2019 · Destroyer is still a pulpy crime movie rather than a profound tragedy. It’s not too different from the indie neo-noirs that came out in the mid-1990s, shortly after Reservoir Dogs and Heat. But ...

  6. Sep 10, 2018 · In director Karyn Kusama’s “Destroyer” — a restless, brutal piece of hard-boiled neo-noir that blazes across a Los Angeles only real Angelenos might recognize — an LAPD detective haunts ...

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  8. Dec 25, 2018 · It’s Los Angeles as diverse wasteland. “Destroyer” is about a detective (Nicole Kidman) who, 20 years before, had such a traumatic experience during an undercover operation that she never bounced back. “Destroyer” shares many similarities with the spate of films in the 1970s about the corruption of law enforcement, and frustrated cops ...

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