A big, dazzling, monstrously violent comedy that is probably the most extreme movie ever made in Hollywood. Psychedelic and assaultive, it's like a fever dream snatched from the skull of Charles Manson.

| Feb 13, 2024

Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers is a passionately mad, frequently bad, passably interesting, probably unmissable movie.

| Feb 13, 2024

The intent is manifestly satirical, though the result is lumbering and mirthless.

| Feb 12, 2024

In Stone's last virtuoso display piece, JFK, the technical fireworks served a firm dramatic purpose. Here they get horribly out of hand. The flimsy, derivative storyline becomes almost obliterated.

| Feb 12, 2024

Stone's talent works well on the eye, seldom on the brain. There's no coherent argument to follow in his film; nothing lasts long lest viewers' attention span parts company with the excitement under the strain of having to follow a thesis.

| Jan 17, 2024

It's Stone's sordid but well-executed action pic message film about how an ill-informed society glorifies repulsive violent figures and makes them heroes.

| Original Score: B | Nov 6, 2023

As a visceral piece of moviemaking, it’s astonishing, but Its message that mass murder begets fawning media coverage and vice versa was already becoming moldy in the mid-90s.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 4, 2023

America may be obsessed with violence, but not nearly to the depth of depravity in which filmmaker Oliver Stone wallows in Natural Born Killers.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 3, 2023

Harrelson and Lewis turn in chilling performances as the vapid, thrill-seeking, amoral couple. Though we don't in any way identify with them, we can identify them.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 3, 2023

…this story of criminal youth gone mad in an even madder world was strong meat in 1995, and still retains some political edge in 2023…

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 21, 2023

Depending on your sensibilities, this controversial 1994 crime drama was either Oliver Stone's magnum opus, or the moment he crossed a line. Either way, it was certainly designed to be provocative.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 27, 2021

A visionary film because it sees the truth of our society and where we are headed.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 18, 2020

The movie is enlightening, not because it transmits new information, but in the way that movies enlighten, through a synergy of images and rhythms that makes us sense the world in a new way.

| Mar 4, 2019

They are anti-heroes of the tallest order, yet some of the most riveting and dementedly sympathetic characters ever created

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 2, 2017

It's an interminable farrago of slogans and pyrotechnics. It has the scathing exaggeration of satire, without the point and bite which make us recognise the real world. It flies off into its own realm of sadistic fantasy.

| Dec 1, 2017

It can easily be said that "Natural Born Killers" ranks among the worst films in Oliver Stone's filmography. It's an incompetently-made attempt at drilling home an incredibly simplistic point that anyone can learn from turning on the news.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 11, 2014

It plays like a mad dash across the cerebral mind-field in search of the right mood, and fails drastically at finding one.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 27, 2014

| Original Score: A | Sep 7, 2011

At times with this movie the art overpowered the film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 26, 2011

Bloody, violent, sexually explicit. Mature teens+.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2011