James Croot07:00, Jun 02 2021 Netflix Killing Them Softly (16+, 93mins) Directed by Andrew Dominik ****½ Andrew Dominik might not be our most well-known or prolific film-maker, but he's produced some of the most challenging and searing slices of cinema of the 21st century. The Wellington-born director burst on to the scene with the darkly comic biopic of notorious Aussie criminal Mark "Chopper" Read in 2000 and then followed it up with the elegiac and engrossing, slow- burning western The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford in 2007. Five years later he re-teamed with Assassination star Brad Pitt for this inventive, insightful and ingenuous modern adaptation of George V Higgins' 1974 crime novel