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Four Rooms (1995)

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Average Rating: 3.5/10
Reviews Counted: 43
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 37

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Average Rating: 2.9/10
Critic Reviews: 12
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Four of the most celebrated directors in the independent film community pooled their talents for this episodic comedy. Ted (Tim Roth) is the new bellboy at a beautiful but decaying luxury hotel; he is not having a good time of it on New Year's Eve, his first night on the job. In one room, a coven of witches are trying to summon the spirit of the goddess Diana; each of the witches must bring a different bodily fluid for their spell to work, but Eva (Ione Skye), who was supposed to bring semen,

R, 1 hr. 42 min.

Comedy

Directed By: Alexandre Rockwell , Quentin Tarantino

Written By: Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino

In Theaters: Dec 26, 1996 Wide

On DVD: Apr 20, 1999

Miramax Films

Cast

Tim Roth
Ted the bellhop
Valeria Golino
Athena ["The Missing In...
Jennifer Beals
Angela (segments "The M...
Antonio Banderas
Man (segment "The Misbe...
Quentin Tarantino
Chester (segment "The M...
Bruce Willis
Leo ["The Man from Holl...
Paul Calderon
Norman ["The Man from H...
Sammi Davis
Jezebel ["The Missing I...
Kathy Griffin
Betty
David Proval
Sigfried ["The Wrong Ma...
Ione Skye
Eva ["The Missing Ingre...
Lili Taylor
Raven ["The Missing Ing...
Marisa Tomei
Margaret
Tamlyn Tomita
Wife (segment "The Misb...
Alicia Witt
Kiva (segment "The Miss...
Lawrence Bender
Long Hair Yuppy Scum
Marc Lawrence I
Sam the Bellhop
Madonna
Elspeth ["The Missing I...
Amanda De Cadenet
Diana
Paul Skemp
Real Theodore
Salma Hayek
TV dancer (segment "The...
Lana McKissack
Danny Verduzco

Critic Reviews for Four Rooms

All Critics (43) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (37) | DVD (3)

The results are mainly awful, and even Roth got saddled with a mannered part that he can't comfortably play.

March 13, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

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Four of the hottest indie directors--Anders, Rockwell, Tarantino, and Rodrigues--miss a unique opportunity to display their idiosyncratic talents resulting in a tedious anthology in which 2 segments are inept, one barely decent, and one OK (guess whose)

December 28, 2006 Full Review Source: Variety

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Emanuel Levy

Variety

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The less said about this career-denting fiasco, the better.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Janet Maslin

New York Times

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Sounds better than it is.

February 13, 2001 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times

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Jack Mathews

Los Angeles Times

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Four Rooms asserts itself as a goof so laboriously and aggressively that you almost feel pinned back in your seat.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Hal Hinson

Washington Post

Top Critic

The segments are uniformly weak.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Desson Thomson

Washington Post

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Begins with two awful segments, which you'll want to fast-forward past to get to the third and fourth segments.

February 13, 2008 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

A ghastly train wreck of a movie, littered with the corpses of promising careers.

March 13, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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TV Guide's Movie Guide

O epis�dio dirigido por Taratino, que funciona como uma grande prepara��o para uma excelente tirada final, � memor�vel. Pena que temos que assistir a uma hora de besteiras para chegar at� ele.

May 30, 2006 Comment

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

They should have called this One Room and released it as a Rodriguez short.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Time Out

The final tale is a real treat; too bad you have to wade through such awfulness just to get there.

April 6, 2005 Comment

Scott Weinberg

eFilmCritic.com

Worth it for the Rodriguez' episode, but otherwise nothing much.

October 20, 2004 Comment

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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Cast: Tim Roth, Antonio Banderas, Jennifer Beals, Bruce Willis, Paul Calderon, Madonna, Marisa Tomei, Quentin Tarantino, Ione Skye, Lili Taylor, Alicia Witt Director: Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell Summary: One mad New Year's Eve, an overwhelmed bellboy (Tim Roth) copes with

July 20, 2009

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The first room was one bag full of crap. That room alone deserves 1 star. The next room is better but it's still no slobberknocker. Then we bring in the pros. Obvious differens in quality. Even though Tarantino is thinking outside the box and doing a different thing then what we are use to...I think Rodriguez won this

February 28, 2011