Reservoir Dogs Reviews
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
Exuberance over violence is mostly reined in. Coiled male panic and ricocheting accusations carry the action. At its best, at a time before Tarantino became all show, Reservoir Dogs reveals masculinity as a bloody, savage, two-faced performance.
Film4
Undoubtedly one of the best films of the 1990s, and probably one of the best directorial debuts of all time, Reservoir Dogs announced the arrival of one of contemporary cinema's hottest talents -- and he came out shooting.
Top CriticTarantino, in Reservoir Dogs, has made a nihilist comedy about how human nature will always undercut the best-laid plans.
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| Original Score: A
Common Sense Media
Raw and bloody. For adults.
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| Original Score: 4/5
LarsenOnFilm
An action movie comprised almost entirely of words.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
ColeSmithey.com
In 1992 Quentin Tarantino did something that hadn't been done since 1986 with David Lynch's "Blue Velvet;" he reinvented cinema.
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| Original Score: A+
BDK Reviews
Tarantino was slated to direct the masterpiece that was True Romance but took on this project which might be the best directorial debut in years!
| Original Score: 5/5
Undeniably impressive pic grabs the viewer by the lapels and shakes hard, but it also is about nothing other than a bunch of macho guys and how big their guns are.
It's unclear whether this macho thriller does anything to improve the state of the world or our understanding of it, but it certainly sets off enough rockets to hold and shake us for every one of its 99 minutes.
You may not like the terms Tarantino sets, but you have to admit he succeeds on them.
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| Original Score: A
FulvueDrive-in.com
A highly cinematic blast for those who can stomach its brutality...Like Glengarry Glen Ross with guns.
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| Original Score: B+
Screendaily
Structurally, Tarantino may have borrowed from Kubrick's crimers and Hong Kong films, but for a debut, it's brilliantly written and acted and it captures the paranoia of white working-class men, threatened by gays, women and other groups.
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| Original Score: A-
Combustible Celluloid
Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere with perhaps the most astonishing, explosive American debut film since John Cassavetes' Shadows.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Bullz-Eye.com
This is a savage gangster story with all the Tarantino trappings, including enough blood for a couple of Jaws movies.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
You don't have to love it to be impressed with its riveting treatment of criminals in action.
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| Original Score: A
Cinemania
The one QT film that always manages to rope a knot in my stomach and keep a firm grip, pulling, twisting, tightening and re-tying it.
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| Original Score: 91/100
TV Guide's Movie Guide
For Tarantino, the age of heroic competence is as dead as his characters are at the fadeout.
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| Original Score: 4/4
