I Kill Giants (Chasseuse de géants)
Young Barbara escapes the realities of life by retreating into a fantasy world to fight evil giants. With help from a new friend and a school counselor, Barbara soon learns to face her fears and battle the giants that pose a threat to her.
29 December 1969, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
19 June 1978, Passaic, New Jersey, USA
15 September 1967, Cork, Ireland
1972, County Dublin, Ireland
October2002, Metairie, Louisiana, USA
3 June 1989, London, England, UK
19 October 2001, Moville, County Donegal, Ireland
6 December 1975, London, England, UK
21 January 2000, Dublin, Ireland
29 September 2001, California, USA
March 22, 2018
I Kill Giants is a dark piece of work for children, which is far from a bad thing.
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 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.
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 22, 2018
I adored I Kill Giants for all its scrappiness, fury, and fantasy.
March 23, 2018
There's still something about I Kill Giants that feels projected, a work more informed by empathy than experience.
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 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 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 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 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.
October 06, 2017
A sensitive and attractive, if not wholly convincing, pairing of fantasy with real-life turmoil.
