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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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May 15, 2007

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Todd McCarthy

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 26 2009 03:16 AM

Variety

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4/5

Rob Gonsalves

Electrifying, except when it's stupid.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 25 2008 06:02 PM

eFilmCritic.com

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3.5/4

Peter Canavese

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: | comment Comment | Jun., 23 2008 03:41 PM

Groucho Reviews

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6/10

John J. Puccio

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 10 2008 11:30 AM

DVDTown.com

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 26 2006 03:15 AM

Time Out

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1/10

Chuck O'Leary

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

comment Comment | Jan., 25 2006 12:06 PM

Fantastica Daily

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4/5

Emanuel Levy

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: | comment 2 Comments | Jan., 03 2006 11:56 AM

EmanuelLevy.Com

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4/4

Michael Dequina

Sick, twisted, and brilliant.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 05 2004 12:42 AM

TheMovieReport.com

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2.5/5

Janet Maslin

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 20 2003 05:08 PM

New York Times

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2/4

Leonard Schwarz

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: | comment Comment | May., 20 2003 05:08 PM

Palo Alto Weekly

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1/5

Ken Hanke

Flashy, loathsome, and utterly empty.

comment 2 Comments | May., 14 2003 12:57 PM

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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2/5

Brian Mckay

[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: | comment Comment | Mar., 18 2003 11:10 PM

eFilmCritic.com

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0/5

Frank Swietek

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comment 1 Comment | Mar., 04 2003 08:01 AM

One Guy's Opinion

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3/5

Dan Marcucci and Nancy Serougi

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comment Comment | Jan., 14 2003 04:04 PM

Broomfield Enterprise

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4/4

Kevin N. Laforest

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: | comment Comment | Sep., 10 2002 08:12 AM

Montreal Film Journal

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Scott Weinberg

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comment Comment | Jul., 26 2002 02:37 AM

eFilmCritic.com

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Stephen Farber

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: | comment 1 Comment | Jan., 09 2002 08:09 AM

Movieline

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Peter Travers

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: | comment 7 Comments | May., 12 2001 10:53 PM

Rolling Stone

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81/100

Brian Webster

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: | comment Comment | Mar., 21 2001 11:04 PM

Apollo Guide

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Mike Bracken

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 13 2001 06:59 PM

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