The book's first-person perspective offers ... I could only see "The Killer Inside Me" as an auteur pushing the envelope for the sake of pushing the envelope.

"The Killer Inside Me" tells the story of Lou Ford (played by ... well Winterbottom and screenwriter John Curran can capture the book's eerie, haunting power, or Lou's willful lack of self-knowledge.

In fundamental ways, Michael Winterbottom’s film of “The Killer Inside Me” is not the Jim Thompson novel it’s based on. Thompson’s book, published in 1952, is a shocking piece of pulp ...

The most painfully serious casualties of The Killer Inside Me’s cinematic gaze are its twinned femmes fatales, whose batterings to death are anatomised with motbid fascination by the camera but merit ...

The savage wit of Jim Thompson is just another casualty, albeit the only unintentional one, in "The Killer Inside Me," an adaptation ... and Thompson’s book is a page-turning series of episodes ...