The Destroyer

It sounds like a rote rote cop [movie], but the way that Karyn Kusama puts a spin on it: [Destroyer] is really about a woman who cannot deal with her own mistakes... I thought that this film had a real heaviness to it.

A masterful performance by Kidman, who has proven over the last few years that she has deep reserves of talent.

[Kidman's] collaboration with Karyn Kusama, who directed this film, is another example of her willingness to back a filmmaker still to peak.

The film has a lack of nerve that works against any possibility of achieving terrifying force or really shaking our expectations of the policier and noir genres. I wish the script were as strong as the direction and the acting.