Colin Farrell's revenge thriller not what it seems

The Killing of a Sacred Deer is an intense and disturbing experience

Barry Keoghan and Colin Farrell in The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Cinema

The Killing of a Sacred Deer: Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, Nationwide, 16,Rating:****

Condemned To Remember: Directed by Gerry Gregg, Nationwide, 15A,Rating:****

The sins of the father are visited on his children in Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer, the Greek director’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning The Lobster and the kind of surreal revenge thriller that nightmares are made of. The biblical reference is not incidental: the film acts as a ...