Brad Pitt's 'Killing Them Softly' Review Roundup
BY Justine Ashley | November 30 2012 3:02 PM In May, "Killing Them Softly" proved to be one of the highlights of the Cannes Film Festival. Now the film, currently in theaters, is earning largely favorable reviews, though some critics feel that the filmmakers could have hammered their points home a little more...softl. On Rotten Tomatoes , the film has recieved a respectable 79% rating, based on 149 reviews. Directed by Andrew Dominik, who helmed the underrated "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" in 2007, "Killing Them Softly" stars Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Scott McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn and Ray Liotta. The crime thriller, which centers on the aftermath of a high-stakes poker game gone wrong, is based on the 1974 George V. Higgins novel "Cogan's Trade." Though the book is set in the '70s, the film takes place in post-Katrina New Orleans in 2008. The recession, presidential campaign and election of President Oba...