U - Turn Critic Reviews

U-Turn is an overdue event, a chance for Stone to apply his hypnotic acid-trip-of-the-soul wizardry to something sexy and lowdown.Read the full review

The stylistic fun Stone has in dramatizing this crime of passion thoroughly revitalizes the well-worked genre.Read the full review

However simply he approaches this familiar milieu, Mr. Stone winds up treating his story's sin-soaked connivers the way Francis Ford Coppola treated vampires. Neither of them is really capable of anything plain.Read the full review

Yet, although Stone has clearly made this motion picture with his tongue planted firmly in his cheek, he nevertheless manages to capture all of the tension and mystery necessary to hold the viewer's interest.Read the full review

The latest in an unending series of bleakly comic, nihilistic neo-noirs to reach the screen, U-Turn's story of a bad day in an Arizona hell invests a lot of skill and style in a trifling tale. So it manages to sporadically amuse even while it's wasting your time.Read the full review

It demonstrates a filmmaker in complete command of his craft and with little control over his impulses.Read the full review

U-Turn is, for a while, darkly amusing. But along comes the second hour, which insults you for even partially succumbing to the first.Read the full review

This is a repetitive, pointless exercise in genre filmmaking--the kind of movie where you distract yourself by making a list of the sources.Read the full review

The film has no discipline, but that's okay because it has no suspense, either.Read the full review