Brad Pitt's latest film, Killing Them Softly, is a huge hit with critics at Cannes - where it screened for the first time.
Aititcool.com (granted, hardly the force they once were) called it "gorgeous, touching, well-acted and just experimental enough to make an old genre feel fresh on the screen," and the fanboy site weren’t the only outlet to heap praise on Pitt and director Andrew Dominik’s follow up to The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. The film, which also stars Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelson, Richard Jenkins, James Gandolfini and Ray Liotta has also been garnering praise from trade papers too; The Hollywood Reporter called it "terribly smart in every respect, with ne’er-a-false note performances and superb craft work from top to bottom."
Pitt produced the film himself, with a worldwide distributor yet to be confirmed - thus a release date too.
