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Jackie Brown (1997)
85 %
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
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 Angeles, JACKIE BROWN cruises along smoothly, much like the film's 1970s soul soundtrack. The film... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Screenwriter: Quentin Tarantino
Story: Elmore Leonard
Producer: Lawrence Bender
Screenwriter: Quentin Tarantino
Story: Elmore Leonard
Producer: Lawrence Bender
Reviews
Top Critic
Consider it a superb Elmore Leonard adaptation by a filmmaker who knows how to serve someone else's material while making it his own.
09/24/07
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04/27/07
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.
03/13/07
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.
03/13/07
The film is more Jarmusch than Peckinpah -- its soul is in the minutiae.
03/13/07
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.
03/13/07
Offers an abundance of pleasures, especially in the realm of characterization and atmosphere.
03/13/07
Top Critic
It's like a scuzz-bucket film noir directed by Stanley Kubrick at his most static-mesmeric.
02/27/07
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.
08/20/06
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
08/10/06
These are unquestionably Tarantino's greatest characters, and the actors eat them up with verve.
05/26/06
Forster and Grier have real chemistry in their limited time together on-screen. Forster has star-quality presence and is used well by Tarantino.
04/09/05
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.
01/27/05
As an exercise in style, Jackie Brown is a refinement of the innovative elements Tarantino employed in the Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction.
12/06/04
Working from an Elmore Leonard novel, Tarantino has created a gangster fiction that is never larger than life and sometimes smaller.
08/07/04
Give (Jackson) the best-actor Oscar for his picture-perfect performance as a gun-running criminal whose vocabulary is as vulgar as his occupation.
06/22/04
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