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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
Oliver Stone's thriller is a spectacularly scuzzy comedy of fate, a film noir that winks at you. The hero (Sean Penn) is a gambler who wheels his broken-down Mustang into the sunbaked nowheres-ville of Superior, Ariz. The chain-of-disaster form of U-Turn is, by now, a genre all its own -- call it Rube Goldberg noir. The movie starts out as a rude, seductive head bender, but Stone finally inflates it into a blood opera of sadomasochistic love.
Posted Oct 17, 1997
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