February 22, 2025

How to Make a Killing is what happens when a movie looks morality dead in the eyes, winks, and steals its wallet. Glen Powell stars as a man living in the financial shadow of his own family, knowing exactly what his life “should have been” if one cruel old decision hadn’t rerouted the inheritance pipeline. His mother gets cut out of the fortune, the cousins grow up rich like it’s their natural habitat, and he’s left working as a late-30s clothier in Manhattan, selling expensive clothes to people like his family.

It’s an oddly specific pain, one that I personally experienced with my wealthy father, and the movie nails the premise with enough truth to make the comedy black as night. Because when the setup is real, the fantasy of revenge doesn’t need to be deep. It just needs to be cathartic.