True Romance 1993

Janet Maslin, New York Times: This film's various outrages are committed unapologetically, and are very much in the service of its bizarre story. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Despite Tony Scott's occasional blundering, True Romance is still a visceral roller coaster. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Made with such energy, such high spirits, such an enchanting goofiness, that it's impossible to resist. Read more

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: If shoot-'em-up, gobble-'em-down movies like The Fugitive and Jurassic Park are rated PG-13 these days, what does an R-rated action adventure look like? Like True Romance: violent to a fault, glam to the max. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: If the romance seldom seems 'true', the spiralling violence (script, Quentin Tarantino) does succeed, in a brutish, cod-Jacobean kind of way. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Provides some amazing encounters, bravura acting turns and gruesome carnage. But it doesn't add up to enough. Read more

Richard Harrington, Washington Post: The movie may be stylistically visceral, but it's aesthetically corrupt. It might as well have been called Pump Up the Violence. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Sifting through the bloody, pulpy trash of True Romance -- should you care to -- you'll find amusing, smart-alecky nuggets planted by screenwriter Quentin Tarantino. Read more