U Turn
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Metascore
54 out of 100

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8.2 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 13 Ratings

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  • Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn
  • Summary: He's a small-time gambler with a backpack full of cash, an overdue debt in Vegas and a broken radiator hose. She's a hot-and-cold vixen caught in the grips of a twisted relationship with her powerful husband. Both of them just want to get out of town. And after you meet the citizens of Superior, Arizona, you'll understand why. (Sony)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 20
  3. Negative: 4 out of 20
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    83
    U-Turn is an overdue event, a chance for Stone to apply his hypnotic acid-trip-of-the-soul wizardry to something sexy and lowdown.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Elvis Mitchell
    80
    However simply he approaches this familiar milieu, Mr. Stone winds up treating his story's sin-soaked connivers the way Francis Ford Coppola treated vampires. Neither of them is really capable of anything plain.
  3. Empire
    Reviewed by: Bob Mcabe
    60
    But for the most part, what you have here is a topnotch filmmaker getting back to basics and really delivering the goods.
  4. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    38
    This is a repetitive, pointless exercise in genre filmmaking--the kind of movie where you distract yourself by making a list of the sources.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. DavidS.
    10
    One of my top ten movies of all time! The critics must have all been smoking crack!
  2. Al
    9
    A brilliant, positively insane mish mash melting pot of styles and genres. Overheated, jittery and brilliantly acted, this is a wry, witty rollercoaster of a film. A real cult flick.… Expand
  3. AveryH.
    9
    An excellent movie, some of Stone's finest cinematography. This movie seems to strike a chord in everyone, and seems to be kept in the last page of everyone's DVD library.… Expand

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