| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Anybody who talks about True Romance has to start with the writing. It's dazzling. In scene after scene, Tarantino surprises the audience even while coming up with dialogue that rings much more true than anything you could have anticipated. [10 Sept 1993]
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| 100 |
USA Today
These gun-crazy, lust-loopy kids on the run are irresistible in the best crime rush since “GoodFellas.” [10 Sept 1993]
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| 100 |
Empire
Clark Collis
One of the best mainstream action-thrillers [in] a decade.
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| 83 |
Entertainment Weekly
You never forget you're watching a derivative, machine-tooled entertainment; the fun is in how the machine keeps spinning off course.
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| 80 |
The New York Times
A vibrant, grisly, gleefully amoral road movie. [10 Sept 1993, p.C5]
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| 80 |
Film Threat
Tony Scott steers the movie like a rocket and it never slows down.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
True Romance, which feels at times like a fire sale down at the cliche factory, is made with such energy, such high spirits, such an enchanting goofiness, that it's impossible to resist. Check your brains at the door.
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| 75 |
Rolling Stone
The blistering confrontation scene between Hopper and Walken -- both in peak form -- will be talked about for years. It's pure Tarantino: a full-throttle blast of bloody action and verbal fireworks.
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| 70 |
TV Guide
Staff (Not Credited)
Blends and recycles elements of scores of crime and road movies, from "Bonnie and Clyde" to "Badlands" but it does so with enough energy and verve to create something entirely fresh and infectiously entertaining.
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| 67 |
Austin Chronicle
Consistently entertaining.
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| 63 |
ReelViews
Despite Tony Scott's occasional blundering, True Romance is still a visceral roller coaster.
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| 60 |
Chicago Reader
As usual, Tarantino's sense of fun is infectious but fairly heartless.
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| 50 |
Variety
Leonard Klady
It doesn't add up to enough, as preposterous plotting and graphic violence ultimately prove an audience turnoff.
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| 50 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
The Tony Scott version of Tarantino comes out vulgar; the graphic violence and profanity-laced posturing represent everything that the wannabes soon used to exhaust audiences. Nevertheless, True Romance contains so many unforgettable moments.
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| 40 |
Washington Post
Amid the violence, the one-liners ring out. Nobody speaks for real. It's as if they all know they're in a movie.
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| 30 |
Washington Post
Richard Harrington
Despite its noir references and evocations, this slick film, directed by Tony Scott from Quentin Tarantino's script, is a preposterously bloody mess, as is the plot.
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| 25 |
Chicago Tribune
A stupid, stylized road picture. [10 Sept 1993]
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| 10 |
Los Angeles Times
It is hard to say what is more dispiriting about True Romance the movie itself or the fact that someone somewhere is sure to applaud its hollow, dime-store nihilism and smug pseudo-hip posturing as a bright new day in American cinema. [10 Sept 1993]
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