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Rated: ; Length: 99 Minutes; Genres: Crime, Drama; With: Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn and Tim Roth...
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By Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Ty Burr is a writer at large for EW and is no relation to Raymond or Aaron

RESERVOIR DOGS Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen (1992, LIVE, $92.98, R) After a botched heist, six hoods play a bloody game of truth or dare as the heat homes in on their warehouse hideaway. Director Quentin Tarantino's debut may be the ultimate Boy Movie: It's loaded with ultraviolence, wise-ass wit and poker- game bravado, and the lone female character is dead seconds after appearing. The carnage approaches jaded overkill-the notorious scene in which a hostage cop gets his ear sliced off is particularly gratuitous-but at least you can fast-forward past it on video. At bottom, Reservoir Dogs is saved by a deep respect for pulp fiction that extends to the casting of B-movie vet Lawrence Tierney as the gang's Mr. Big. You may not like the terms Tarantino sets, but you have to admit he succeeds on them. B+ -TB


Posted Apr 09, 1993
 

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