7/10
A movie about that time Lucien Carr, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac were sparking a literary revolution and oh yeah, Carr murdered a guy. The movie does a good job of portraying the development of both events in sidestep. It's helped along by good, credible performances, especially Daniel Radcliffe as Ginsberg and Dane DeHaan as Carr. The movie, thankfully, is not entirely reverential to the literary titans it portrays, showing them occasionally as the messy, unpleasant, pretentious, morally-confused kids they were.
First-time director John Krokidas does a very fine job, although he leans a bit too heavily on upbeat montages. They work okay when set to the hot jazz of the time, but when one is backed by TV on the Radio, well, why? Krokidas is careful to let the story to do the talking and directs pretty unobtrusively, maybe a little too unobtrusively but that's OK.
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