Inglourious Basterds is as much fun as you can have in a cinema without embarrassing an usher or making your popcorn too salty.
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08/24/09
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Inglourious Basterds (2009)
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Reviews Counted:250
Fresh:220
Rotten:30
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: A classic Tarantino genre-blending thrill ride, Inglourious Basterds is violent, unrestrained, and thoroughly entertaining,
Theatrical Release:19-08-2009
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
Reviews for Inglourious Basterds
Top CriticThis spaghetti-western-inspired war film is a watchable mix of the good, the bad and the ugly.
08/24/09
Ideological sentimentality is not a charge that could be made against Tarantino, but his film thereafter, though consistently gripping, is uneven and fractured.
08/24/09
Basterds is not as the closing dialogue suggests, a masterpiece, but even an off-day Tarantino can still impose shock and awe.
08/24/09
Tarantino likes action, but more than anything he likes seeing actors delivering the dialogue he wrote for them. In the case of the surprising, original Inglourious Basterds, we are happy to indulge him.
08/24/09
Tarantino’s finest film since Pulp Fiction.
08/24/09
Landa is a man you will love to hate. His performance is a credible candidate for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. He is the best thing in this patchy, overlong but ridiculously enjoyable return to form for the bad boy of American cinema.
08/24/09
QT has let loose completely: flashes of cine-genius curdle with crude, crazy juvenility, although it doesn’t stop this being his most purely enjoyable film since Kill Bill: Vol. 1.
08/24/09
The final impression of the movie — that it’s crass, juvenile and profoundly distasteful — overrides its more enjoyable moments.
08/21/09
Top CriticThis exploitation epic is a unique beast that molests history, wrong-foots expectations and royally entertains. The movies’ coolest Basterd is back on his game.
08/21/09
Lively and literate, Inglourious Basterds feels fresher than any Tarantino film in a while. Even so, smart as his writing is, it wouldn’t kill him to see a blue pencil now and again.
08/21/09
Inglourious Basterds is sprawling, flawed and hugely self-indulgent. It's also hugely enjoyable.
08/21/09
Inglourious Basterds is sporadically enjoyable, but it's also a dismal squandering of a once-promising talent.
08/21/09
His latest is too long, too talkative and a touch too self-indulgent. But it's a heck of a lot better than anything he's done since Pulp.
08/21/09
The endless twists and turns coupled with Tarantino's trademark black comedy help take the edge off the violence a little.
08/21/09
Top CriticWhirled around the floor of a story that goes absolutely nowhere, contains no human verities, has no significant heft as historical drama, yet still proves, now and then, an entertaining piece of Pop Disco Art from the cinema’s most talented tease.
08/21/09
If the accomplishment of this first scene were upheld throughout then we might have a masterpiece on our hands. Alas, it is uneven as well as unpredictable.
08/21/09
A fundamentally silly piece of fiction and far too few occasions when Tarantino manages to produce the kind of spectacular cinematic moment combining character, script and editing that first signalled him out as a virtuoso director.
08/21/09
QT is rediscovering his form: Basterds is a tense, punchy and darkly funny film.
08/21/09
Top CriticA tense, thrilling, brilliantly acted and superbly directed war flick that just might be Tarantino's masterpiece.
08/21/09
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August 23, 2009:
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August 20, 2009:
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