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

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

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

| 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

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

| Nov 19, 2008

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

| Jun 24, 2006

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

Full Review | May 20, 2003

It's Tarantino's gutter poetry that detonates True Romance. This movie is dynamite.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 12, 2001

Nothing if not consistently entertaining.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The movie may be stylistically visceral, but it's aesthetically corrupt. It might as well have been called Pump Up the Violence.

| Jan 1, 2000

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

If you're in the mood for this sort of absurd, violent nonsense ... True Romance does deliver.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Sifting through the bloody, pulpy trash of True Romance -- should you care to -- you'll find amusing, smart-alecky nuggets planted by screenwriter Quentin Tarantino.

| Jan 1, 2000