Arts & Entertainment

Killing Them Softly

A professional enforcer investigates the brazen robbery of a high-stakes mob poker game in this crime thriller  adapted from a novel by George V. Higgins. Livid over the fact that three low-level thieves have crashed the entire underworld economy, the mob’s top brass hires Jackie Cogan to see that the bandits pay for their crime.

The closer Cogan gets to his target, however, the more he finds his mission complicated by an alcoholic hit man who’s well past his prime, incompetent gangsters, and the playboy host of the inauspicious game. Director: Andrew Dominik. Cast: Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins. Rated: R. Time: 1:37