"Glen Powell, who rose from supporting hunk to dimpled A-lister in the wake of 2022's Top Gun: Maverick, makes another attempt to cash in on his moment in the aptly named How to Make a Killing. Meanwhile, possible actual unageing vampire Alexander Skarsgård continues his string of envelope-pushing, tauntingly explicit parts in Pillion, a film that never bothers to explain the meaning of its somewhat esoteric moniker."
"Rebooting the concept behind the classic British comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets, How to Make a Killing is a dark comedy about Becket Redfellow (Powell), the heir to a massive family fortune who sits ninth instead of first in line after his late mother was disowned by his not-late grandfather for refusing to abort him. (In Kind Hearts, it's merely a class gap that leads to the disinheritance. Make of that what you will.)"
Glen Powell headlines How to Make a Killing, a dark-comedy reboot of Kind Hearts and Coronets in which Becket Redfellow, ninth in line to a vast fortune after his mother was disowned for refusing an abortion, plots to murder relatives to claim his inheritance. The film situates Redfellow's upbringing in lesser New Jersey neighborhoods and relies on Powell's impersonation skills, recalling his performance in Richard Linklater's Hit Man. Alexander Skarsgård stars in Pillion as a possibly unaging vampire in an explicit, enigmatic film. Both actors lack wide range, and their recent choices reflect strategic career positioning.
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