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Reservoir Dogs

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1h 45m

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90%

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94%

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A group of thieves assemble to pull of the perfect diamond heist. It turns into a bloody ambush when one of the men turns out to be a police informer. As the group begins to question each other's guilt, the heightening tensions threaten to explode the situation before the police step in.

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Thrumming with intelligence and energy, Reservoir Dogs opens Quentin Tarantino's filmmaking career with hard-hitting style.

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Ella Taylor

L.A. Weekly

A fond genre move that's forever chortling up its sleeve at the puerile idiocy of the genre, a heist caper without a heist, an action movie that's hopelessly in love with talk and a poem to the sexiness of storytelling.

Jan 12, 2024

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Joe Pollack

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The story is as phony as the names the robbers take - Mr. White, Mr. Blue, Mr. Blonde, Mr. Pink and Mr. Brown - and it's also a hymn to violence, blood and sadism that reaches repulsive levels.

Oct 14, 2022

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Jay Carr

Boston Globe

And while Tarantino never quite succeeds in putting around each character the sense of isolation that marks the best noirs, he carries off this exercise in lively fashion. It's more purple than noir, but it's got juice.

Apr 27, 2018

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John Brhel

Vague Visages

Reservoir Dogs is an impressive debut that reflects Tarantino's unique, postmodern style and points towards things to come.

Jun 6, 2023

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Sean Axmaker

Stream on Demand

Precisely plotted and engagingly juggled into a rich swirl of flashbacks that wind through the current crisis, this is the work of a director who loves movies and a storyteller engaged with the art of telling stories.

Feb 4, 2023

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Paul Mount

Starburst

The film possesses a stomach-churning urgency following a deceptively languid opening...

Rated: 5/5

Nov 30, 2022

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Benjamin F

A cheap and effective masterpiece It is incredible how a movie with only a good script, few actors and even the director himself acting as the main character manages to be so good. After praising this movie so much, I can say that it is about a group of thieves who find out about a snitch according to his words. who in the end turns out to be a policeman, I won't say more, see this masterpiece .

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/24

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Alec C

Even the best-planned heights tend to go haywire! As a gang of criminals under different aliases find themselves ambushed by the cops after a diamond heist, they suspect that one of them is an informant and try to find the snitch before they kill each other. Quentin Tarantino's first film ever manages to make its mark with its intense screenplay and expert cast making this a film we can't ignore!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/27/24

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Ben V

This movie didn't make sense to me until I got through a majority of it. It's a poisonous reach toward understanding friendship.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/22/24

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Javier P

Lo que más me ha sorprendido de esta película es lo avanzada que está a su época, la dirección es muy buena, los flashbacks están bien metidos, y los planos son muy divertidos y abiertos. Por lo demás, nada que no me esperara de Tarantino con sus diálogos que te dejan embobado por lo realistas y naturales que son, ayudados de la gran interpretación de los actores. Las pegas que le puedo poner son algunas cosas que no tienen mucho sentido (como que el señor naranja este dos horas desangrándose como un cerdo y no se muera), la trama que aunque la lleven muy bien es muy simple, y la poca escenografía. Aún así es muy entretenida de ver, la recomiendo mucho.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/21/24

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Gero C

I love this movie. It's my favorite Quentin Tarantino movie. The characters, the narration, the violence, everything in this movie is perfect. Highly recommended

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/14/24

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helder f

A movie about a robbery of a diamond store. A lot of bullets, a lot of blood, a lot of yelling and screaming, and enough tension to keep one watching.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/11/24

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Synopsis

A group of thieves assemble to pull of the perfect diamond heist. It turns into a bloody ambush when one of the men turns out to be a police informer. As the group begins to question each other's guilt, the heightening tensions threaten to explode the situation before the police step in.

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Producer: Richard N. Gladstein, Monte Hellman, Ronna B. Wallace
Screenwriter: Roger Avary, Quentin Tarantino
Distributor: Miramax Films, Artisan Entertainment
Production Co: Live Entertainment, Dog Eat Dog Productions
Rating: R (Strong Violence|Language)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 23, 1992, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 19, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $2.5M
Runtime: 1h 45m
Sound Mix: Stereo, Dolby Stereo, Surround
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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