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From Dusk Till Dawn

1996

Robert Rodriguez

George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Quentin Tarantino ...

6.6

62,016

Thriller. Action. Horror. Fantasy After a string of robberies that left a river of blood, two sadistic siblings named Seth and Richie Gecko head to Mexico running away from the FBI. To get over the border, they kidnap Jacob Fuller, a widowed preacher (Harvey Keitel), and his two children, Kate (Juliette Lewis) and Scott (Ernest Liu). Once south of the border, the quintet park their RV at a rough-and-tumble trucker bar called The Titty Twister, where Seth and Richie are ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'From Dusk Till Dawn' is a skillful meat-and-potatoes action extravaganza with some added neat touches (...) It's a pro job, but these guys can do better (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	David Hunter The Hollywood Reporter	"[Robert Rodriguez] fails to make any lasting impression except revulsion at the spectacle of acclaimed independent filmmakers wasting their talents on such trash"	NEG
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"The result is better than Rodriguez's 'Desperado', but there's a similar feeling of disassociation among the various elements"	NEU
United Kingdom	Mark Salisbury Empire	"Silly, but so much fun (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Alan Jones Radio Times	"Energetic film-making and engaging performances (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Rodriguez demonstrates his talents more clearly than ever (...) The film loses its clever edge when its action heats up so gruesomely and exploitatively that there's no time for talk"	NEU
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"It's often witty, in a grotesque kind of way; and, by its own peculiar standards, it's occasionally inventive (...) [It] is gratuitously nasty"	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Rodriguez and Tarantino put on a good show"	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Charity Time Out	"Rodriguez has a lot of fun dreaming up cool ways to kill people (...) but he also gets something resembling a performance from Tarantino and transforms Clooney into a full-fledged movie star."	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"It's great fun, but certainly not great art (...) The reason 'From Dusk Till Dawn' entertains is because it never takes itself seriously (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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