We Need to Talk About Kevin
A travel writer/publisher who gives up her beloved freedom and bohemian lifestyle to have a child with her husband. She then must struggle to love her strange child, despite the increasingly vicious things he says and does as he grows up. But he is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.
13 May 1961, Syracuse, New York, USA
6 July 1977, New York City, New York, USA
28 July 2003, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
30 September 1992, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
21 February 1970, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
January 25, 2017
An acute and profound dissection of the genesis of a small, seemingly harmless being with an alarming potential for evil. I recommend you prepare before you see it. [Full review in Spanish]June 02, 2013
As a psychological study of a shattered mother struggling to make sense of a heinous crime carried out by her teenage son, it's endlessly fascinating.March 09, 2012
"We Need to Talk About Kevin" is confrontational cinema that will leave you speechless.December 31, 2012
A real-world horror movie -- for parents.March 08, 2012
It's a hallmark of "Kevin's" emotional bravery and intellectual honesty that the questions haunt us long after the end credits roll.March 09, 2012
Fragmented, dreamlike, a whir of memories and misery, We Need to Talk About Kevin is unsettling, but also somehow unnecessary.March 08, 2012
Some movies punish you, but you take it because you're getting something out of the bargain: an insight, a performance, art, adrenaline. Then there are the movies that punish you for the heck of it.March 09, 2012
Director Ramsay makes Kevin's impact all the more felt by coming at it from all angles.May 03, 2015
We're not supposed to talk about a lot of the ugly feelings Kevin stirs up, but maybe we need to.September 17, 2012
It may not be a crowd-pleaser, but it's not every day we get an emotional powerhouse of a film done this well.June 19, 2013
It becomes a film about her [Swinton] scattered mind. That produces wonders from Swinton, but it ignores the plea in the title. What about Kevin? Kevin deserves so much more attention-indeed, he deserves being played by Tilda Swinton.March 04, 2013
A high school killing spree leads to a captivating examination of parenthood and the 'nature vs nurture' debate.