I can t think of another recent film that has treated the death of an animal with as much casual cruelty as Murder of a Cat. Don t get me wrong: while I love cats dearly, the operative word in that sentence is casual since Murder of a Cat, a blackly-comic murder-mystery, is supposed to be cruel. This may sound odd, but the film s best gags
and plot twists would consequently be much improved if director Gillian
Greene, and co-writers Christian Magalhaes and Robert Snow took greater
pains to mock their unreliable lead protagonist, a lonely bachelor who
vows to catch his cat s killer. Viewers are supposed to pity and/or