Killing Them Softly (2012)

In the shadow of the 2008 Presidential election and the Great Recession, Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendelsohn are hired to rob a mob poker game in imitation of another robbery perpetrated by Ray Liotta, who runs the game, years earlier. Hitman Brad Pitt is called in who in turn calls in James Gandolfini to perform the parts he feels he’s too close to. A violent, cynical, and probably all too accurate portrayal of the United States and its values that spends a bit too much time emphasizing that point, I was mostly surprised to see Pitt and Gandolfini working together two films in a row when I had no idea they shared the screen so often.