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Jackie Brown (1997)

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86

Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 74
Fresh: 64 | Rotten: 10

Tarantino's third film, fashioned as a comeback vehicle for star Pam Grier, offers typical wit and charm -- and is typically overstuffed.

63

Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 7

Tarantino's third film, fashioned as a comeback vehicle for star Pam Grier, offers typical wit and charm -- and is typically overstuffed.

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Average Rating: 3.5/5
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Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1995 Rum Punch, switching the action from Miami to LA, and altering the central character from white to black. Ruthless arms dealer Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson), who lives with perpetually stoned beach-babe Melanie (Bridget Fonda), teams with his old buddy Louis Gara (Robert De Niro), just released from prison after serving four years for armed robbery. ATF agent Ray Nicolette (Michael Keaton) and cop Mark Dargus

Aug 5, 1998

Miramax Films

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All Critics (76) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (64) | Rotten (10) | DVD (39)

The tale is filled with funny, gritty Tarantino lowlife gab and a respectable body count, but what is most striking is the film's gallantry and sweetness.

March 13, 2007 Full Review Source: Newsweek
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Quentin Tarantino puts together a fairly intricate and relatively uninvolving money-smuggling plot, but his cast is so good that you probably won't feel cheated.

March 13, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
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The film is more Jarmusch than Peckinpah -- its soul is in the minutiae.

March 13, 2007 Full Review Source: Slate
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Offers an abundance of pleasures, especially in the realm of characterization and atmosphere.

March 13, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety
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It's like a scuzz-bucket film noir directed by Stanley Kubrick at his most static-mesmeric.

February 27, 2007 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly
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Tarantino's finest, most mature movie to date.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
Time Out
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While Jackie Brown can be too languid, drifting like one of Melanie's highs, its wearied, over-40 lows reveal Tarantino as a director who, once upon a crime, could've mined complexity and depth from the cracks and crevices of American genre movies.

January 29, 2013 Full Review Source: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

A much moodier, slower pace from Tarantino's other work, but Jackie Brown is one enjoyable flick that rewards its audience with each viewing.

January 29, 2012 Full Review Source: IGN DVD
IGN DVD

might be his best film

November 13, 2011 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central
Film Freak Central

Succeeds as a witty Elmore Leonard crime story...but also as a surprisingly affecting mid-life romance. [Blu-ray]

October 20, 2011 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | Comment (1)
Groucho Reviews

Tarantino's films aren't so much stories as strings of anecdotes: movie moments, urban myths, conversations strewn with pop culture references.

October 4, 2011 Full Review Source: Parallax View
Parallax View

Mellower Tarantino still has sex, drugs, swearing, murder.

December 7, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

Loaded with all the crisp dialogue, trademark camera work, and memorable characters that we've come to expect from every Tarantino film.

August 12, 2010 Full Review Source: Bullz-Eye.com
Bullz-Eye.com

Consider it a superb Elmore Leonard adaptation by a filmmaker who knows how to serve someone else's material while making it his own.

September 24, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
eFilmCritic.com

That this modest crime thriller can't quite live up to its audacious dance across so many strata of hip and hommage and self-referential cool it makes your head spin is hardly a surprise, or even a criticism.

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

When you absolutely, positively got to thrill every mother****er in the room, accept no substitutes. Jackie Brown is the AK-47 in Tarantino's arsenal.

August 20, 2006 Full Review Source: Nick's Flick Picks
Nick's Flick Picks

Tarantino's tribute to creative influences, writer Elmor Leonard and blaxploitation star Grier, results in a more mature but less audacious film; last shot, taken from Queen Christina, only shows how magical Garbo was and Grier isn't

August 10, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
EmanuelLevy.Com

These are unquestionably Tarantino's greatest characters, and the actors eat them up with verve.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Combustible Celluloid

Forster and Grier have real chemistry in their limited time together on-screen. Forster has star-quality presence and is used well by Tarantino.

April 9, 2005 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews
Reeling Reviews

Those who were waiting to see Quentin Tarantino, a k a the most annoying man in Hollywood, fall flat on his face are likely to be disappointed with Jackie Brown.

January 27, 2005 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Audience Reviews for Jackie Brown

Just revisited this. Might be my new favorite movie.
January 23, 2011
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Probably Tarantino's most mellow film, 'Jackie Brown' makes for an interesting film even if the plot doesn't sound like it. Its strongest suite is easily its fantastic cast, with well developed characters and a patient but clever script. It is not your typical Tarantino as we've come to know him today, but 'Jackie Brown' gets the job done in regards to being a good film.
January 7, 2013
Kase Vollebregt

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    1. Jackie Brown: Shut your raggedy ass up and sit the fuck down!
    – Submitted by Matthew D (3 months ago)
    1. Ordell Robbie: Fuck's wrong with you, knockin' on the door like the goddamned police?
    2. Ordell Robbie: You lookin' to get shot?
    3. Max Cherry: I thought you might be asleep.
    4. Ordell Robbie: You keep fuckin' with me, you the one gonna be asleep. Forever.
    – Submitted by Tracey M (4 months ago)
    1. Ordell Robbie: Fuck's wrong with you, knockin' on the door like the goddamned police?
    2. Ordell Robbie: You lookin' to get shot?
    3. Max Cherry: I thought you might be asleep.
    4. Ordell Robbie: You keep fuckin' with me, you the one gonna be asleep. Forever.
    – Submitted by Tracey M (4 months ago)
    1. Ordell Robbie: Fuck's wrong with you, knockin' on the door like the goddamned police?
    2. Ordell Robbie: You lookin' to get shot?
    3. Max Cherry: I thought you might be asleep.
    4. Ordell Robbie: You keep fuckin' with me, you the one gonna be asleep. Forever.
    – Submitted by Tracey M (4 months ago)
    1. Ordell Robbie: What the fuck happened to you, man? Shit, your ass used to be beautiful!
    – Submitted by gur s (7 months ago)
    1. Melanie: Anyway, I keep that picture because, of all the fucking time I was there, thats the only picture I?ve got of me in Japan...
    2. Louis Gara: Thats Japan. Oh. Yeah...Well... Yeah, I can... Yeah, it looks. I could tell...
    3. Melanie: Wanna fuck?
    – Submitted by Nicola D (10 months ago)

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