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'Destroyer' tries too hard to defy our expectations

( R ) ( Monitor Movie Guide )

Nicole Kidman plays a gritty, semi-disgraced Los Angeles police detective who seems hollowed out by rage in Karyn Kusama鈥檚 film.

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Nicole Kidman stars in 'Destroyer.'
  • By Peter Rainer Film critic

Nicole Kidman plays a gritty, semi-disgraced Los Angeles police detective who seems hollowed out by rage in Karyn Kusama鈥檚 鈥淒estroyer,鈥� and if the film鈥檚 title evokes an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie rather than a typical Kidman vehicle, that鈥檚 probably intentional.

This is one of those radical change-your-image performances that tries too hard to defy our expectations. Kidman has indeed proved in the past to be quite versatile, but this muddled, scabrous, neo-noir procedural does her no great favors. Grade: C+ (Rated R for language throughout, violence, some sexual content, and brief drug use.)

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