True Romance

"Patricia Arquette is great, although Christian Slater is comprehensively out-acted and out-charismad by everyone else on screen..."

"Tarantino’s dirty, funny and unpredictably violent genius powers True Romance..."

"Despite its noir references and evocations, this slick film... is a preposterously bloody mess, as is the plot."

"The varying sensibilities of Quentin Tarantino and Tony Scott come together to fashion one of the cornerstone films of the early 1990s."

"Pulp Fiction is certainly the richer, more complex film, but True Romance nonetheless has much in common with it, and feels like a dry run, right down to the genre-fixing title."

"This is not only an immensely entertaining violent action but genuinely romantic at times."

"Provides some amazing encounters, bravura acting turns and gruesome carnage. But it doesn't add up to enough."

"If the romance seldom seems 'true', the spiralling violence (script, Quentin Tarantino) does succeed, in a brutish, cod-Jacobean kind of way."

"This film's various outrages are committed unapologetically, and are very much in the service of its bizarre story."

"Made with such energy, such high spirits, such an enchanting goofiness, that it's impossible to resist."