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... [More]
Starring: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Reviews for Jackie Brown
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Tarantino's finest, most mature movie to date. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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 |
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A classy package and an interesting auteur piece. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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The film is more Jarmusch than Peckinpah -- its soul is in the minutiae. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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 |
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Offers an abundance of pleasures, especially in the realm of characterization and atmosphere. Full Review |
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B |
It's like a scuzz-bucket film noir directed by Stanley Kubrick at his most static-mesmeric. Full Review |
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A- |
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 |
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B- |
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 |
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3.5/4 |
These are unquestionably Tarantino's greatest characters, and the actors eat them up with verve. Full Review |
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B |
Forster and Grier have real chemistry in their limited time together on-screen. Forster has star-quality presence and is used well by Tarantino. Full Review |
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A- |
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 |
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 C+ |
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 |
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Working from an Elmore Leonard novel, Tarantino has created a gangster fiction that is never larger than life and sometimes smaller. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
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 |
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6/10 |
[A] flawed but stylish and moderately entertaining crime thriller. Full Review |
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