Reservoir Dogs

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Reservoir Dogs

R

Released Oct 23, 1992

1h 45m

Crime

Drama

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A group of thieves assemble to pull of the perfect diamond heist. It turns into a bloody ambush when one of the men turns out to be a police informer. As the group begins to question each other's guilt, the heightening tensions threaten to explode the situation before the police step in.

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Critics Consensus

Thrumming with intelligence and energy, Reservoir Dogs opens Quentin Tarantino's filmmaking career with hard-hitting style.

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Ella Taylor

L.A. Weekly

A fond genre move that's forever chortling up its sleeve at the puerile idiocy of the genre, a heist caper without a heist, an action movie that's hopelessly in love with talk and a poem to the sexiness of storytelling.

Jan 12, 2024

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Joe Pollack

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The story is as phony as the names the robbers take - Mr. White, Mr. Blue, Mr. Blonde, Mr. Pink and Mr. Brown - and it's also a hymn to violence, blood and sadism that reaches repulsive levels.

Oct 14, 2022

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Jay Carr

Boston Globe

And while Tarantino never quite succeeds in putting around each character the sense of isolation that marks the best noirs, he carries off this exercise in lively fashion. It's more purple than noir, but it's got juice.

Apr 27, 2018

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Jack Walters

Loud and Clear Reviews

"Quentin Tarantino’s feature debut Reservoir Dogs is an astounding single-location thriller that makes the most of its all-star cast and refined script."

Rated: 4.5/5

Jan 18, 2025

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Tim Brayton

Alternate Ending

The film's biggest single problem is that the director learned so much from making it that he went on to keep making things that were better.

Rated: 3.5/5

Jan 13, 2025

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John Brhel

Vague Visages

Reservoir Dogs is an impressive debut that reflects Tarantino's unique, postmodern style and points towards things to come.

Jun 6, 2023

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Audience Member

Había oído de esta película muchas veces pero nunca me detuve a analizar que era de Tarantino 😛 hasta que me enteré que el personaje de Sanji está basado en Mr. Pink y me aventuré a verla. Buenísima para pasar el rato 🩷

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/24/25

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Greta G

STILL one of my VERY favorite movies. Saw when it first came out and saw it again in the theater today because they are doing a Tarantino film fest. This is the movie that made me fall in love with Tim Roth. Every actor carries their weight and together, they made a classic. The characters, the story, the music...everything is perfection. Not for the faint of heart or those who don't like a little blood with their gore.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/20/25

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Dominik N

Surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Despite most of the action happening in one place with very scarce set dressing the movie is captivating from start to finish. The acting is incredibly strong here.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/19/25

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Emma F

Quentin Tarantino’s debut film, “Reservoir Dogs,” revolves around a botched diamond heist. Amidst a colorful cast of characters, each with a unique alias, suspicion falls on a police informant within their midst.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/08/25

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Marco J

The greatest film of the 90's alongside pulp fiction, the matrix and many more. The tragedy and end was hard to process and personalities of each character beautifully added to the plot. it took the pulp style of a heist and flipped it onto its head in a creative way, instead of the tension being the planning and execution of the heist it was the consequences.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/04/25

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Flynn D

oooh I love this movie, it's fun, tense, funny and mysterious. The dialogue is so great and keeps you entertained. The characters are interesting and I like the brutality in this. I do think the backstory scenes are unneeded and kinda boring (except the robbery scene). And these are also Quentin Tarantino's least iconic characters, but that's it.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/24/25

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Synopsis

A group of thieves assemble to pull of the perfect diamond heist. It turns into a bloody ambush when one of the men turns out to be a police informer. As the group begins to question each other's guilt, the heightening tensions threaten to explode the situation before the police step in.

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Producer: Lawrence Bender
Screenwriter: Roger Avary, Quentin Tarantino
Distributor: Artisan Entertainment, Miramax Films
Production Co: Live Entertainment, Dog Eat Dog Productions
Rating: R (Strong Violence|Language)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 23, 1992, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 19, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $2.5M
Runtime: 1h 45m
Sound Mix: Stereo, Dolby Stereo, Surround
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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