Natural Born Killers

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Natural Born Killers

R,

1994,

1h 59m,

Crime/

Drama

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52%

48 Reviews

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81%

100,000+ Ratings

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48 Reviews

81%

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Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis are two young, attractive serial killers who become tabloid-TV darlings, thanks to a sensationalistic press led by Robert Downey Jr. The press reports the pair as they go on a 52 people killing spree. A controversial look at the way the media portrays criminals.

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Natural Born Killers explodes off the screen with style, but its satire is too blunt to offer any fresh insight into celebrity or crime -- pummeling the audience with depravity until the effect becomes deadening.

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Nigel Andrews

Financial Times

Feb 13, 2024

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

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Geoff Brown

The Times (UK)

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.

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Alexander Walker

London Evening Standard

Jan 17, 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.

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John Powers

Vogue

Feb 13, 2024

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.

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Philip French

Observer (UK)

Feb 12, 2024

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

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Nov 6, 2023

B

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.

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Abraham W

Apr 17, 2019

Brilliant movie, that doesn't hold up QUITE as well as it might've. The Tomatometer is about half what it should be.

Ron R

Mar 18, 2019

Controversial, you bet. Divisive, No. This was absolute trash. While I can see myself liking the concept, the execution absolutely ruins it. The directing was terrible, the characters are horribly written, and its all style with no substance. An absolute trainwreck that would've been worse if the actors decided not care about the story that is seemingly on life support.

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Han L

Feb 5, 2019

There's a reason why Quentin Tarantino himself hates this movie. Clearly, this is an idea that only he understood and was capable of bringing to life. The Oliver Stone version that we ended up getting is so smarmily obtuse, so philosophically ill-conceived, so baselessly sadistic, and so intellectually backwards that it brought my blood, bile, and piss to a virtual boil. This is smirkingly uneducated and abject schlock, masquerading under the age-old, paper thin guise that we've come to know as the pre-2010's version of "it was just a prank, bro" - satire. Dear God, what an absolute cop out. Notwithstanding the fact that this movie is almost impossible to look at, it's ugly in nearly every other way, ultimately going on to inspire the kinds of acts of violence it was so purportedly dead-set on critiquing. Fuck this movie. Fuck it and the nuance-lacking, childishly nihilistic, insultingly high horse that it glided in on in the ass.

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Feb 2, 2019

The best thrilling movie ever made!

Rey P

Oct 26, 2018

I thought this was an annoying 90s dirt bag movie with no appeal. I think Juliette Lewis is annoying as hell.

Rey W

Mar 15, 2018

Too simplistic, superficial and utterly frustrating. Probably one of the worst social satires ever made.

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Synopsis

Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis are two young, attractive serial killers who become tabloid-TV darlings, thanks to a sensationalistic press led by Robert Downey Jr. The press reports the pair as they go on a 52 people killing spree. A controversial look at the way the media portrays criminals.

Director: Oliver Stone
Producer: Jane Hamsher, Don Murphy, Clayton Townsend
Screenwriter: Quentin Tarantino, David Veloz, Richard Rutowski, Oliver Stone
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: New Regency Pictures, Ixtlan Corporation, Alcor Films, Warner Brothers, Warner Bros. Pictures, J D Productions, Regency Enterprises
Rating: R (Graphic Carnage|Extreme Violence|Sexuality|Shocking Images|Strong Language)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 26, 1994, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): May 8, 2015
Runtime: 1h 59m
Sound Mix: Dolby SR, DTS, Stereo, Surround, Dolby A, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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