True Romance Reviews
While it might not have garnered the same critical praise as the Tarantino-helmed Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, True Romance has a charm of its own, which makes it impossible not to love.
| Dec 10, 2023
'...the perenially absorbing kinetic character collisions of True Romance are worth savouring...'
| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 1, 2023
The varying sensibilities of Quentin Tarantino and Tony Scott come together to fashion one of the cornerstone films of the early 1990s.
| Jul 22, 2022
wildly improbable and delightfully unpredictable, even when charging through some very familiar territory
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 12, 2022
A bubble-gum movie packed with quirky characters and moving at the speed of a ricocheting pinball.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 3, 2022
Scott had a knack for drawing out emotions from his actors, which in turn, creates strong performances and a movie in which audiences can become emotionally invested.
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 27, 2022
“True Romance” remains a sweet, if not strange, romantic action comedy from one of the best directors in modern cinema, written by one of cinema’s highest rated screenwriters, and featuring a cast that’s wall-to-wall incredible…
| Jun 26, 2022
This is the realm of meta-cinema, where those who make movies, those who long to be in them and those who model their behaviour on them all come together to contrive between them a classic movie climax: a shoot-out...
| Jul 19, 2021
Gritty, shocking, sexy, and violent, Tony Scott's film feels like the perfect union between frenetic action, darkly humorous mayhem, and biting dialogue.
| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 25, 2020
Admittedly, the model is still weird, filled with unexpected twists and poetic outbursts, but in this case, the offspring is equally creative in its sense of verbal sequence. [Full Review in Spanish]
| Apr 17, 2020
... a brilliant story... [Full review in Spanish]
| Mar 14, 2018
Tarantino only writes stand- out scenes. The plot moves from one brilliantly off-beat moment to the next.
| Nov 28, 2017
This is the best film Quentin Tarantino never made.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 22, 2015
Quentin Tarantino's dirty, funny and unpredictably violent genius powers True Romance, directed by Tony Scott.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2015
The whole thing rattles along like that pink Cadillac they're driving.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2015
The only thing that goes wrong with the movie is Christian Slater... the failure of its central character ends up being an irritation, but not a film-crippling problem.
| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 22, 2013
...a pulpy good time that holds up remarkably well two decades after its theatrical release...
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2013
...[a] violently funny genre mishmash that gave Tony Scott's new life, and also transmitted Quentin Tarantino's vision more credibly than the screenwriter and then-novice director could have done himself.
| Aug 23, 2012
| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011
If shoot-'em-up, gobble-'em-down movies like The Fugitive and Jurassic Park are rated PG-13 these days, what does an R-rated action adventure look like? Like True Romance: violent to a fault, glam to the max.
| Aug 16, 2009