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I Kill Giants (Chasseuse de géants)
An oddball girl named Barbara Thorson regularly brings a Norse warhammer to her middle school, and has a detailed imaginary life in which she is a skilled giant killer. However, her flights of fantasy might be an attempt to cope with troubles at home.
6 December 1975, London, England, UK
29 December 1969, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
21 January 2000, Dublin, Ireland
19 October 2001, Moville, County Donegal, Ireland
19 June 1978, Passaic, New Jersey, USA
15 September 1967, Cork, Ireland
March 21, 2018
While the film isn't as subtle as A Monster Calls or Where the Wild Things Are, it captures the messiness of suffering just as well.
March 22, 2018
[T]he movie is playing a game of sorts with pain and grief. It's tricky territory that the movie almost navigates successfully.
October 06, 2017
A sensitive and attractive, if not wholly convincing, pairing of fantasy with real-life turmoil.
March 21, 2018
There's not enough to the story to keep the effort engrossing, finding the tale overflowing with sincerity, but lacking content, often scrambling to fill a feature-length run time.
March 22, 2018
I Kill Giants is a dark piece of work for children, which is far from a bad thing.
March 22, 2018
By the time Barbara's problems are revealed to be far more mundane than fantastical, the movie has lost all its magic.
March 22, 2018
This intimate story about a troubled 12-year-old who's on a mission to save her town is virtually tone perfect.
March 21, 2018
I Kill Giants might work great for a target audience of misunderstood tween/teenagers who are looking for something more somber and personal than Harry Potter, but I don't think it'll mean much to anyone else.
March 21, 2018
The vivid cinematography, affecting performance by Wolfe, and lack of saccharine allow the film to resonate not only with the teen target demographic but older viewers as well.
March 23, 2018
Poignant, "I Kill Giants" uses fantasy elements to grab viewers and discuss the effect of tragedy on the youngest among us. It also reminds us of the importance of creativity and imagination as a device to deal with life's difficulties.
March 23, 2018
There's still something about I Kill Giants that feels projected, a work more informed by empathy than experience.
March 22, 2018
I adored I Kill Giants for all its scrappiness, fury, and fantasy.