Quentin Tarantino seems to be hanging on to a lost world of moviemaking. He may be nuts. But he's a nut who cares.
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Inglourious Basterds (2009)
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Reviews Counted:40
Fresh:30
Rotten:10
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: A classic Tarantino genre-blending thrill ride, Inglourious Basterds is violent, unrestrained, and thoroughly entertaining,
Theatrical Release:Aug 21, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $120,523,073
Synopsis: Inglourious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz).... [More]
Starring: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth
Director: Quentin Tarantino
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Reviews for Inglourious Basterds
Top CriticIts biggest flaw, though, for those who care about such things, may be its moral attitude. That might seem a stodgy thing to bring up in the context of a Quentin Tarantino movie, but it takes such center stage that it needs to be examined.
09/10/09
Top CriticI'm tempted to say Tarantino has done it again, but I doubt anyone has ever done anything like his dazzlingly original World War II movie, Inglourious Basterds.
08/21/09
Top CriticIt's these fine sequences that can make you truly regret Tarantino's snarky, in-joke impulses, not to mention his arrogant -- perhaps even dangerous -- lack of concern with the story's moral dimensions.
08/21/09
Top CriticWill Basterds polarize audiences? That's a given. But for anyone professing true movie love, there's no resisting it.
08/21/09
Top CriticClocking in at 2 hours and 32 minutes, it is unforgivably leisurely, almost glacial, a film that loses its way in the thickets of alternative history and manages to be violent without the start-to-finish energy that violence on screen usually guarantees.
08/21/09
Top CriticThe picture contains all the things his fans like about Tarantino -- the wit, the audacity, the sudden violence -- but this movie's emotional core and bigness of spirit are new.
08/21/09
Top CriticWar reduced to pop entertainment should at least be easy to swallow, but this stuff keeps getting stuck in our craw. The trash that Tarantino used to elevate he now imitates.
08/21/09
Top CriticScenes like the showdown in the tavern and the movie-premiere finale are as imaginative, energetic and, in their own weird, brutal way, beautiful as cinema gets.
08/21/09
Top CriticAll the trademark Tarantino flourishes are here -- the joyous splaying of gore; the self-referential dialogue; the artful artificiality and the juxtaposition of humor and violence -- but they don't add up to much.
08/21/09
Top CriticSimply another testament to his movie love. The problem is that by making the star attraction of his latest film a most delightful Nazi, one whose smooth talk is as lovingly presented as his murderous violence, Mr. Tarantino has polluted that love.
08/21/09
Top CriticFor all its visual bravura and occasional bursts of antic inspiration, it feels trivial, the work of a kid who can't stop grabbing his favorite shiny plaything.
08/21/09
Top CriticI don't know if I've ever seen a revenge fantasy so willfully messed up, sometimes offensively so, that still manages to be worthwhile for whole sections of its 2˝ hours. The opening is as good a sequence as Tarantino has ever created.
08/21/09
Top CriticThe true moral universe in which the film unfolds is that of the spaghetti westerns...: a world in which the strong are above the law and the way to tell the good guys from the bad guys is not by their acts but by the kind of hats they wear.
08/20/09
Top CriticThe outcome is gory and glorious.
08/20/09
Top CriticInglorious Basterds is an entertainment but an uneasy one; it represents 153 minutes of bravura stalling, after which its creator loses interest and walks away.
08/20/09
Top CriticTonally schizoid and rife with anachronisms (a David Bowie song on the sound track, out-of-era vernacular), Tarantino's Third Reich folly is utterly exasperating.
08/20/09
Top CriticQuentin Tarantino's extremely witty revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds may be the most fun you'll have at the movies this summer.
08/20/09
Top CriticWhen a man makes a movie this good, you can forgive him the occasional indulgence.
08/20/09
Top CriticBasterds is not great Tarantino but it's solidly good Tarantino, and that's sweet news for his fans.
08/20/09
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December 14, 2009:
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