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01/01/00
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.
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
Top CriticPulp Fiction is a hard film to top, but Tarantino has done it, with great flair, style and sheer cinematic genius.
01/01/00
Top CriticConsider 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 CriticIt'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
Tarantino's finest, most mature movie to date.
02/09/06
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
[A] flawed but stylish and moderately entertaining crime thriller.
06/21/04
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