Titles can deceive. The Kill Room (Shouut!, 9.28) sounds primitive but the trailer indicates otherwise — it’s apparently a moderately sophisticated, smartly written dark comedy.
Directed by Groundlings and Funny or Die veteran Nicol Paone and written by Jonathan Jacobson, it’s about a hitman (Joe Manganiello) who accidentally becomes a sensation as a hip avant-garde painter.
Pic costars Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Maya Hawke (who also stars as Flannery O’Connor in Wildcat, co-written and directed by dad Ethan Hawke), Dree Hemingway and Debi Mazar.