Savages Reviews

Movie Reviews

• the film often gets its head stuck so far up its morally ambiguous fundament that it forgets all manner of other ABCs of narrative convention

  by Glenn Kenny [MSN Movies ]

• Savages talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk: For the first time in his hallowed career, Stone comes off as a poseur

  by Rene Rodriguez [Miami Herald ]

• pungent, nasty and teeming with colorful crooked types

  by Justin Chang [Variety ]

• is great screen entertainment: a tough, violent, brutally thrilling movie not to be missed. Oliver Stone is back where he belongs

  by Pete Hammond [Boxoffice Magazine ]

• is bloated with plot and exposition

  by Karina Longworth [Village Voice ]

• has been made in a jagged, darkly trippy style that well expresses the story's tense uncertainties

  by Todd McCarthy [Hollywood Reporter ]

• director's best movie in years

  by Randy Myers [San Jose Mercury News ]

• delivers a more satisfying motion picture experience than nearly all of the higher profile

  by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]

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