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Reservoir Dogs

1992

Quentin Tarantino

Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen ...

8.1

138,194

Thriller. Action They were six strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Hired by mob boss Joe Cabot and given fake names so no one could identify the others, they thought there was no way their heist could fail. But they are ambushed by the police, so they have to go back to their rendezvous point.

	Author	Review
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"The movie is one, extended climax. Even with flashbacks and other time jumps, it never lets up. You have to go back to Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1952 'The Wages of Fear' to recall suspense this relentless"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"A small, modestly budgeted crime movie of sometimes dazzling cinematic pyrotechnics and over-the- top dramatic energy."	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"An intense, bloody, in-your-face crime drama about a botched robbery and its aftermath"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"This film, the first from an obviously talented writer-director, is like an exercise in style (...) The movie has one of the best casts you could imagine (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"A brutal movie, brutal in all the right ways -- brutally stark, brutally funny, brutally brutal"	POS
United States	Gene Siskel Chicago Reader	"A much-acclaimed revisionist gangster film that I found to have more style than substance"	NEU
United Kingdom	John Naughton Empire	"The perfect debut movie. Full stop (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Anne Billson Telegraph	"'Reservoir Dogs' reminds you of the best cinema of that decade (...) when film could still be raw, exciting and deliciously different."	POS
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"Tarantino's dialogue crackles with obscene wit and gutter poetry, and he uses the widescreen to acute effect with deep focus compositions that create a dramatic space between people."	POS
United Kingdom	Almar Haflidason BBC	"It remains as shocking, perversely funny, and stylish as upon original release (...) [A] clever balance of humour and tension (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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