At one point in Killer Joe, a hideously funny tabloid noir set on the outskirts of Dallas County, Chris Smith (Emile Hirsch) is let into the family double-wide by a relation whose face has just been pummeled into a Rorschach blot of dried gore. He doesn’t stop to ask what happened, doesn’t even miss a beat — such is the milieu of casual violence in which the film takes place, where it’s easy to slip... More >>>