Reservoir Dogs Reviews

The movie feels like it's going to be terrific, but Tarantino's script doesn't have much curiosity about these guys.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Tarentino has the craft down but lacks the depth and moral wisdom to avoid merely gleeful bloodletting.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

This is a savage gangster story with all the Tarantino trappings, including enough blood for a couple of Jaws movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Raw and bloody. For adults.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

The writing is crisp and clean, providing line after line of snappy dialogue designed to leave the viewer alternately pondering and laughing aloud.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

A nasty, unchained beast with teeth as sharp as razors. And it's a dog that proudly leads the pack of the very finest crime films.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

| Original Score: 4/5

Tarantino's debut is a wildly entertaining, thrilling, upsetting and hilarious movie, shot and performed with verve, go-for-broke energy and gritty charisma.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

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.

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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.

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In 1992 Quentin Tarantino did something that hadn't been done since 1986 with David Lynch's "Blue Velvet;" he reinvented cinema.

Full Review | Original Score: A+

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.

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One of the great American first films.

| Original Score: 5/5

Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere with perhaps the most astonishing, explosive American debut film since John Cassavetes' Shadows.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Chock full of witty and quotable dialogue and eye-popping scenes.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

A tour de force.

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| Original Score: 4/5

Grandes atuações em um filme chocante, mas engraçado em sua violência estilizada.

| Original Score: 4/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 91/100