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Natural Born Killers (1994)

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Reviews Counted:29

Fresh:15

Rotten:14

Average Rating:5.9/10

Runtime: 3 hrs 25 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Oliver Stone's over-the-top satire on America's worshipful fascination with tabloid criminals stars Woody Harrelson as Mickey Knox and Juliette Lewis as girlfriend-wife Mallory Wilson. Commencing... Oliver Stone's over-the-top satire on America's worshipful fascination with tabloid criminals stars Woody Harrelson as Mickey Knox and Juliette Lewis as girlfriend-wife Mallory Wilson. Commencing with the dual murder of Mallory's sexually abusive father (Rodney Dangerfield) and grossly negligent mother (Edie McClurg), the anomic couple take off on a three-week killing spree across the country, telling everyone who they are so that they get the credit for their crimes. The media are immediately enthralled with the couple, especially Wayne Gale (Robert Downey Jr.), the bloodthirsty host of a tabloid TV show who follows their every move. By the time they're finally arrested, they've become such huge media stars that the cops treat them more like celebrities than criminals. Even the maniacal limelight-hogging warden of the Batongaville State Prison, Dwight McClusky (Tommy Lee Jones), is in awe. Stone pulls out all the stops in the prison riot, as the unwitting Gale becomes an unwilling participant in his own broadcast of the event. Again the director switches from film to video, from color to black and white, from sitcom parody to newsreel parody, and from one film stock to another, hoping to jar the audience out of its complacency with visual hyperbole. [More]

Starring: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey, Tommy Lee Jones

Starring: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey, Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield

Director: Oliver Stone

Director: Oliver Stone
Screenwriter: David Veloz
Story: Quentin Tarantino

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Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
03/26/09
Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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Electrifying, except when it's stupid.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
08/25/08
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

Profane, hallucinogenic, and wickedly satirical, Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers mainlined a message from hell (a.k.a. modern America, as seen by Stone) into mall theatres and multiplexes. [Blu-Ray]

Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | comment Comment
06/23/08
Peter Canavese
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

Stone has guts, I'll grant him that; but he needn't have spilled so much of it in our laps.

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
06/10/08
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
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01/26/06
Time Out

An incoherent, experimental acid trip so unbearably pretentious that it gave me newfound respect for the Warren Commission. A real torture test.

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01/25/06
Chuck O'Leary
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily

One of the most dazzling, audacious and timely films, a feverish nightmare of American culture at its worst, which might explain the heated controversy and legal battles caused directly by Stone's picture.

Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | comment 2 Comments
01/03/06
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Sick, twisted, and brilliant.

Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
01/05/04
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

As a satirist, [Stone's] an elephant ballerina.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
05/20/03
Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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America's obsession with tabloid television and with the psychopaths whose lives the shows sensationalize is the ostensible target of Oliver Stone's latest bombastic and self-righteous exploration of evil in America.

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
05/20/03
Leonard Schwarz
Leonard Schwarz
Palo Alto Weekly

Flashy, loathsome, and utterly empty.

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05/14/03
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

[Stone's] idea of subtlety is to put a velvet Crown Royale sack over a hammer before he smacks you in the face with it repeatedly.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
03/18/03
Brian Mckay
Brian Mckay
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03/04/03
Frank Swietek
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01/14/03
Dan Marcucci and Nancy Serougi
Dan Marcucci and Nancy Serougi
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Oliver Stone does an amazing job behind the camera, and the editing is totally delirious: it's one of the most visually dazzling films I've ever seen.

Full Review Source: Montreal Film Journal | comment Comment
09/10/02
Kevin N. Laforest
Kevin N. Laforest
Montreal Film Journal

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07/26/02
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com

Made in the style of an MTV video...Natural Born Killers is exactly the kind of bullying, mindless assault that Stone excoriates the media for perpetrating.

Full Review Source: Movieline | comment 1 Comment
01/09/02
Stephen Farber
Stephen Farber
Movieline

This is one of my all time favorite movies, and it put Oliver Stone on my list of 'Best Directors Ever,' right along with Stanley [Kubrick].

Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment 7 Comments
05/12/01
Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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Stone can’t make a point subtly –- and yes, even a brutal, hallucinogenic movie like this one would benefit from some subtlety.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
03/21/01
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

The film's delightful to watch, mainly because it appears to be the largest budgeted student film ever made.

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02/13/01
Mike Bracken
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