Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman) is an LAPD detective who, as a young cop, was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, she must work her way back through the remaining members and into her own history with them to finally reckon with the demons that destroyed her past.
"Nicole Kidman, playing a burned-out LAPD cop, proves she's as actress who knows how to stay the course, no matter how twisty, tangled or down and dirty it gets. She's dynamite." - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"Director Karyn Kusama shifts dexterously between the present and the past, unspooling a satisfyingly twisted piece of storytelling by writers Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi, who succeed in making both plots gripping." - Kate Taylor, Globe and Mail
"Rarely are women cast in these roles of screwed-up, hard-boiled antiheroes with a lifetime of regrets to make up for, and even if this is your basic LA noir, it's well-executed and satisfying in all the ways it should be." - Linda Holmes, NPR
"At the center of it all is Kidman, the indisputable heart of the film, whose all-in performance elevates Destroyer above a well-made cop drama and into something special." - Katie Rife, AV Club