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Jackie Brown

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Jackie Brown (1997)

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Reviews Counted:67

Fresh:57

Rotten:10

Average Rating:7.3/10

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

Runtime: 2 hrs 34 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Quentin Tarantino returns to the crime genre once again with this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's RUM PUNCH. Transplanting Leonard's crime story from Miami to Tarantino's city of choice, Los... Quentin Tarantino returns to the crime genre once again with this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's RUM PUNCH. Transplanting Leonard's crime story from Miami to Tarantino's city of choice, Los Angeles, JACKIE BROWN cruises along smoothly, much like the film's 1970s soul soundtrack. The film follows Jackie Brown (Pam Grier), a flight attendant who makes extra cash by running drugs and cash for sleazebag Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson). When Jackie sees the opportunity to make off with a large chunk of change, she begins to play everyone around her, including two detectives who are threatening her with jail time if she doesn't rat out Ordell, and a sympathetic bail bondsman (Robert Forster) who finds himself falling for Jackie. Tarantino sets a pace that is laid back and groovy, building to an eventual climax that determines whether or not Jackie walks away with the booty. In much the same way that Tarantino resuscitated John Travolta's career with PULP FICTION, he does the same thing here with Grier and Forster. Overall, JACKIE BROWN is a less in-your-face effort than Tarantino's previous films, but it's this downshift in gears that makes it so refreshing. [More]

Starring: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda

Starring: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Robert De Niro, Michael Bowen, Chris Tucker, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Hattie Winston, Denise Crosby, Sid Haig, Aimee Graham, Ellis E. Williams, Tangie Ambrose, T'Keyah Crystal Keymah, Venessia Valentino, Diana Uribe, Renee Kelly, Elizabeth McInerney, Colleen Mayne, Laura Lovelace

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Screenwriter: Quentin Tarantino
Story: Elmore Leonard
Producer: Lawrence Bender

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Tarantino's finest, most mature movie to date.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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Tarantino has once again defied the critics and produced a movie that solidly establishes him as still the most important filmmaker of the decade.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
01/01/00
Adam Smith
Adam Smith
Empire Magazine
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A classy package and an interesting auteur piece.

Full Review Source: Edinburgh U Film Society | comment Comment
01/01/00
Keith H. Brown
Keith H. Brown
Edinburgh U Film Society

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

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
09/24/07
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com
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Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
04/27/07
Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer

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.

Full Review Source: Newsweek | comment Comment
03/13/07
David Ansen
David Ansen
Newsweek

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.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
03/13/07
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader

The film is more Jarmusch than Peckinpah -- its soul is in the minutiae.

Full Review Source: Slate | comment Comment
03/13/07
David Edelstein
David Edelstein
Slate

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.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
03/13/07
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Offers an abundance of pleasures, especially in the realm of characterization and atmosphere.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
03/13/07
Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
Variety
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It's like a scuzz-bucket film noir directed by Stanley Kubrick at his most static-mesmeric.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
02/27/07
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

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.

Full Review Source: Nick's Flick Picks | comment Comment
08/20/06
Nick Davis
Nick Davis
Nick's Flick Picks

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

Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | comment Comment
08/10/06
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

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

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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.

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04/09/05
Robin Clifford
Robin Clifford
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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.

Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
01/27/05
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

As an exercise in style, Jackie Brown is a refinement of the innovative elements Tarantino employed in the Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction.

Full Review Source: Looking Closer | comment Comment
12/06/04
Jeffrey Overstreet
Jeffrey Overstreet
Looking Closer

Working from an Elmore Leonard novel, Tarantino has created a gangster fiction that is never larger than life and sometimes smaller.

Full Review Source: New York Magazine | comment Comment
08/07/04
David Denby
David Denby
New York Magazine

Give (Jackson) the best-actor Oscar for his picture-perfect performance as a gun-running criminal whose vocabulary is as vulgar as his occupation.

Full Review Source: Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) | comment Comment
06/22/04
Judith Egerton
Judith Egerton
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

[A] flawed but stylish and moderately entertaining crime thriller.

Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | comment Comment
06/21/04
Dragan Antulov
Dragan Antulov
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