Forget Tarantino’s baggage. Jackie Brown is a vulnerable movie from a mainstream American filmmaker of any generation, especially at a time when stars are required more than ever to behave as if they don’t age.

| Jan 23, 2025

A more reflective film, with deeper characterizations coming from an older cast willing to sit with a moment. It’s also incredibly entertaining, funny, well-crafted, and detailed, making any revisit worthwhile.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 22, 2025

... A beautifully modulated portrait of the limits and the last resorts of middle age.

| Dec 4, 2023

Even though this film pushes past two-and-a-half hours, the forward direction of the plot keeps things moving with minimal repeat. This movie exudes coolness on every level.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 4, 2023

While Jackie Brown does revel in nostalgia and feature its fair share of firearms, it’s a much more subdued, nuanced and mature film than any of Tarantino’s previous works, or any other production within his entire filmography.

| Jun 5, 2023

Jackie Brown is an outstanding drama, and is the film I believe to be Quentin Tarantino’s most lasting masterpiece.

| May 3, 2023

There’s something magical about seeing talent like Forster and Grier getting to light up after so many years of Hollywood keeping them in the cellar.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Feb 12, 2023

To enjoy this you have to be into it for the kicks. It baits us, but does not completely reel us in.

| Original Score: B | Jan 19, 2023

Pam Grier and Robert Forster turn in some of the best performances of 1997 in Jackie Brown.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 25, 2022

Tarantino’s use of multiple angles for the same scene to show different perspectives spread throughout a short period of time is similar to that in Pulp Fiction and isn’t new, but is still effective.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 23, 2022

It's a long, occasionally ponderous, but compellingly stylish and witty film, with a marvellous soundtrack and a top-notch supporting cast...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 16, 2022

Maybe posterity will crown Jackie Brown as his best film and maybe not. Either way it shows that mainstream plotting and noir romance are yet more movie styles that Tarantino can fabricate: brilliantly.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 15, 2022

Grier and Jackson are excellent, while Forster steals the entire picture with his understated turn -- he earned the film's sole Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actor.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 1, 2021

Episode 45: The Farewell / Jackie Brown / Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

| Original Score: 85/100 | Oct 4, 2021

Jackie Brown is about two-and-a-half hours long, but it zips by like a film half that length, and every second the iconic Pam Grier is on screen in her titular role as a money-smuggling flight attendant is a second worth relishing.

| Sep 13, 2021

[Quentin] Tarantino knows his way around a script, but this is something special that goes beyond witty dialogue.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 4, 2020

Grace is all about second chances, so from that perspective, Jackie Brown is a film filled with grace.

| Apr 1, 2020

We need more referents like her. Superheroine, superwoman. Thus spoke Zarathustra; This is how Nietzsche described it. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 8, 2019

A twisty comedy of betrayal and greed.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 4, 2019

Surprisingly, Tarantino displays less confidence assembling it than he did in the earlier film. At more than two hours, it's simply too long, or at least it seems so.

| Apr 27, 2018