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  Review by FilmApe ★★★ 2

  Brad Pitt trying really hard to be crazy, while David Duchovny is trying really hard to be normal.

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  Review by Grooveman ★★★★ 13

  A very underrated thriller with a crazy ass Brad Pitt. This has a Tony Scott 90's vibe to it that I really dig. It's a shame Dominic Sena never made anything great since.

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  Review by vitor

  david duchovny and his silver earrings.... oh boy

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★½ 6

  Seven days before this little nothing of a show a young David Duchovny was starring called The X Files, he was busy on a road trip along a naive, town Southern girl Juliette Lewis and a sleazy Brad Pitt as they went on a hunt for the locations were horribly murders took place.

  So this has been a movie that's been on my radar for as long as I can remember. Whether it was on my local video rent stores or at the DVD/VHS library from a friend of my mother I visited along with her, that cover has been burned in my mind and has intrigued me. And well, almost 30 years later I finally got to sit through…

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  Review by Edith ★★★★½ 4

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

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  Review by Jacob Knight ★★★★

  Perhaps I'm just a sucker for the hazy, '90s Tony Scott anti-real texture, but every frame of KALIFORNIA is gorgeous; bathed is shafts of light, fog, and drifting dust, making it's hyper-affected true crime trailer park grime come to life in a way that only the best pieces of pulp did from this time period (certainly helps when you have a post-KING OF NEW YORK Bojan Bozelli shooting your picture). The rest is this gnarly approximation of what we'd come to expect from Rob Zombie, as Brad Pitt's fajita grease bathed mega-acting and Juliette Lewis' little girl leftovers from Mallory Knox deliver a a real nasty pair of devil's rejects. Cap it all with a really distant David Duchovny performance…

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  Review by Dave Edwards ★★★ 2

  Kalifornia was never one of my VHS rental mainstays like it was for others. The movie looks slick and all, with director Dominic Sena doing his best Tony Scott impression and cinematographer Bojan Bazelli proving yet again why he’s a stud with the lens, but it all seems so inconsequential. There’s not much going on in the script and there’s certainly nothing in the way of subtext, so the movie has to rely on Brad Pitt’s scuzzy method energy as a dim-witted psychopath. Juliette Lewis is also along for the ride as Pitt’s girlfriend — which, thanks to Natural Born Killers, makes her performance seem like a warm up* for her iconic role as Mallory Knox. I do think there’s…

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  Review by pd187 ★★★

  "there's a big difference between writing a magazine article and a book. i know. i wrote a magazine article."

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  Review by matt lynch ★★½

  Agreeably slick and goth-flashy in that quintessentially 90's way, more a fashion statement than a film, but not a thought in its pretty head.

  Discussed on Episode 21 of The Suspense is Killing Us.

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  Review by shookone ★★★★ 4

  this is borderline fantastic. it's thrown all out there: Brad Pitt going all the way towards playing the picture perfect, snoting, spitting, cussing redneck psychopath with daddy issues and a cap that has the southern flag on it. Juliette Lewis even going a step further being an intellectually challenged, infantile birdie that is so far away from anything sane, it's a joy to watch.

  David Duchovny and his earring have to tell the tale in the worst part of the screenplay, being the off screen narrator. Dominic Sena stages this quite free floatingly as sandy, sweaty comic strip (unfortunately this being the single highlight of his filmography), Bojan Bazelli lenses it competently in the romantic earth tones of the south…

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  Review by BeardofTsu ★★★

  Juliette Lewis had hell of a run in the 90's. This and Natural Born Killer only being a year apart seems fuckin' insane to be perfectly honest. Brad Pitt really carries the movie as he is in full sociopath mode. If he's not starting fights in bars, he's killing motherfuckers in gas station toilets and making random noises at Michelle Forbes. Loved this a lot when I was younger - I couldn't get enough of these Tarantinio-esque copies not sure I feel as strongly about this one now as I did then. I think it is a tad overlong in the 3rd act and lacks the amount of violence I would like but it's still a good time to see Brad Pitt proving he was more than just a pretty face.

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  Review by bloodbubb1e ★★★½

  The 90s gave us some of the best serial killer films and on the list somewhere is the criminally underrated Kalifornia. I saw this in the late 90s and have seen it a few times over the years. It still holds up well to this day. It’s dark, gritty and violent.
   
  The film follows two couple on a road trip turned murder spree. Unbeknown to them one of them is a serial killer.

  Brad Pitt is brilliant as the white trash psychopath. His early 90s performance are some of my fav: 12 Monkeys, Fight Club, Too Young To Die - all had the same unhinged psychotic energy.
   
  Juliette Lewis was also amazing as the naïve girlfriend, so heartbreaking.
   
  KALIFORNIA is a truly one tense wild ride.