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movie-reviews.colossus.net - : Despite his reputation as one of America's foremost ''serious'' filmmakers, Oliver Stone's name under the ''director'' caption does not guarantee a good movie. I learned that lesson while enduring the seemingly-endless tedium of The Doors, and was reminded of it during some of the long, drawn-out portions of JFK. However, nothing that Stone has directed - or misdirected -- prepared me for the grotesque mess that is Natural Born Killers. more...
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1.5/
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www.filmcritic.com - : Violence got the star treatment in the early ‘90s. With much of America feeling powerless to stem the crime and gang culture that seemed to be on the rise, we began to react to the ocean of carnage that dominated popular culture. Congress held hearings about violence on television, the finishing moves in Mortal Kombat, and Body Count’s otherwise obscure gangsta-metal single “Cop Killer.” For a while, blaming the pervasiveness of fake violence for real-world murder and assaults came to be as fashionable as flannel shirts and ripped jeans. more...
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4/5
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : Oliver Stone's ''Natural Born Killers'' might have played even more like a demented nightmare if it hadn't been for the O.J. Simpson case. Maybe Stone meant his movie as a warning about where we were headed, but because of Simpson it plays as an indictment of the way we are now. We are becoming a society more interested in crime and scandal than in anything else - more than in politics and the arts, certainly, and maybe even more than sports, unless crime is our new national sport. more...
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4/4
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