Glen Powell's How to Make a Killing gets disappointing Rotten Tomatoes score

How to Make a Killing, a new crime thriller starring Glen Powell and Margaret Qualley, has debuted to a disappointing Rotten Tomatoes score.

Powell plays Becket Redfellow, whose mother was disowned by her rich family before he was born; he intends to pick off his relatives to inherit a fortune. Qualley appears as Becket's friend Julia Steinway.

Not everyone is unimpressed. "How to Make a Killing boasts an opening so strong that it buys enough audience goodwill to coast through nearly its entire running time. That’s priceless in a screwball murder movie in which everyone’s soul is for sale," one review said. Another added, "In the age of Dexter and Succession and Beef, How to Make a Killing just plays as a patchy amusement. Yet I was held by it; the film’s acrid riffs on the hidden depravity of the new greed culture keep it aloft."

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