Editing How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (section)

==Reception==
The film holds a 59% approval rating on [[Rotten Tomatoes]], based on 34 reviews.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/how_to_kill_your_neighbors_dog|title=How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2002)|publisher=Rotten Tomatoes|accessdate=5 July 2020}}</ref>

In his review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[Stephen Holden]] described the film as "a Hollywood rarity, a movie about an icy grown-up heart-warmed by a child that doesn't wield emotional pliers to try to squeeze out tears…. It is a tribute to Mr. Branagh's considerable comic skills that he succeeds in making a potentially insufferable character likable by infusing him with the same sly charm that [[Michael Caine]] musters to seduce us into cozying up to his sleazier alter egos…. Mr. Kalesniko's satirically barbed screenplay, whose spirit harks back to the comic heyday of [[Blake Edwards]], stirs up an insistent verbal energy that rarely flags."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Holden |first=Stephen |author-link=Stephen Holden |date=February 22, 2002 |title=Film Review; A Tale of 2 Neighbors, Both Pains in the Neck |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/22/movies/film-review-a-tale-of-2-neighbors-both-pains-in-the-neck.html |access-date=June 19, 2016}}</ref>

[[Owen Gleiberman]] of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' gave the movie a B and said, "Branagh, in his most forceful non-[[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] screen performance, grounds even the softest moments in the angry revolt of his wit."<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Gleiberman |first=Owen |date=February 15, 2002 |title=How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |url=https://ew.com/article/2002/02/15/how-kill-your-neighbors-dog/ |access-date=June 19, 2016 |authorlink=Owen Gleiberman}}</ref> Justine Elias of ''[[The Village Voice]]'' stated it was "slight but unendurable…its fractured time frame gets confusing".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Elias |first=Justine |date=February 19, 2002 |title=Criminal Mischief |work=[[The Village Voice]] |location=New York |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/film/criminal-mischief-6414235 |access-date=June 19, 2016}}</ref>

The film was the closing night film at the [[2000 Toronto International Film Festival]] and won multiple festival awards.<ref name="THR">{{cite news |last1=Kilday |first1=Gregg |title=Toronto Flashback: Kenneth Branagh Revealed His Lighter Side in 2000 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/toronto-film-festival-kenneth-branagh-how-to-kill-your-neighbors-dog-movie-1235010760/ |access-date=6 October 2022 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=2021-09-10}}</ref><ref name="TCM">{{cite web |title=How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/434107/how-to-kill-your-neighbors-dog#notes |website=Turner Classic Movie Database |access-date=6 October 2022}}</ref> It was released as ''Mad Dogs and Englishmen'' in Australia.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mad Dogs and Englishmen DVD |url=https://www.amazon.com.au/Mad-Dogs-Englishmen-Kenneth-Branagh/dp/B01FR38NIU |access-date=6 October 2022}}</ref>