What really makes Inglourious Basterds stick out like a Royale with cheese...is its sheer playfulness. Tarantino does digress, as is his wont, but these are not the irritating indulgences they were in Kill Bill.
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08/21/09
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
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Reviews Counted:248
Fresh:218
Rotten:30
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: A classic Tarantino genre-blending thrill ride, Inglourious Basterds is violent, unrestrained, and thoroughly entertaining,
Australian Theatrical Release:
Aug 20, 2009 Wide
US Box Office: $119,596,251
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
1 - 20 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticThe film is long, certainly, but it’s never dull; it’s violent, of course, but hey, World War II was a violent business and war movies were never like this before.
08/19/09
Top CriticThis rollicking epic harks back to typical wordy Tarantino fare, with the added explicit violence that’s to be expected from this cult director.
08/19/09
Top CriticA two and half hour film made up of only a handful of beautifully crafted scenes. Superbly exagerated characters in high intensity moments. This is classic Tarantino.
08/19/09
Top CriticBe prepared for unsettling shifts in pace and tone, be prepared to be shocked and amused, to laugh and guffaw and to be always surprised in this comic fantasy which is cheeky enough to reinvent history and has audiences clapping as it does so
08/17/09
Top CriticA bold, gory and glorious cinematic fest liberally doused with humour, satire and entertainment value
08/17/09
Top CriticIt's great in parts.
11/04/09
Simply Tarantino's best. A very intelligent script that combines war movie elements with some pointed observations about violence in movies and in society.
10/25/09
Năo importando a qual gęnero pertençam ou que história estejam contando, os filmes de Quentin Tarantino giram primordialmente em torno de duas coisas: o Cinema e o amor que o diretor sente por este.
10/09/09
Hitler is introduced in a cape like a comic-book villain, so moral relativism clearly isn't part of the plan. With its intentionally brash rewriting of history, Inglourious Basterds is what Quentin Tarantino's back-half of Grindhouse should've been.
09/22/09
As it progresses, it increasingly takes its cues from Ernst Lubitsch's great Nazi farce To Be or Not to Be, except eventually even wackier and less realistic.
09/20/09
Gutsy, pleasurable and very satisfying. Packaged together by the amazing Quentin Tarantino, this film will slap you in the face and say: "Damn good, what a way to end the summer!"
09/11/09
97% mature, solid, suspenseful, respectful, artistic, violent, sophisticated, tremulous, funny, surprising
09/10/09
Its 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
Tarantino has a created a more moving tale about the Jews and the Nazis during World War II than, for example, last year's much more reverent Defiance, which was actually based on a true story yet came off as shtick.
09/10/09
One basterd of a movie... Who wants to hear Quentin Tarantino dialogue in a foreign language, thus having to read it?
09/09/09
Everything else [except the Basterds themselves] works so beautifully
09/09/09
t's so rich in cinematic value, it's difficult for me to understand how a film critic could fail to be impressed by it.
09/09/09
By letting his brilliant dialogue-centered screenplay showcase his superb cast and keeping the gory violence in check, this fictional WWII saga is Tarantino's masterpiece. Who knew?
09/08/09
Why is Basterds such a colossal disappointment? It's mostly because Tarantino indulges all of his worst impulses as a filmmaker and ignores what he does best.
09/07/09
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August 23, 2009:
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Tarantino's Basterds Take the Top Spot
This weekend Quentin, Brad, and Harvey lit up their stogies following the exceptional opening of their new World War II film Inglourious Basterds which topped the charts and... More...
August 20, 2009:
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Studios rush four more films into wide release hoping to grab whatever dollars they can in the final weeks of the summer movie season. Leading the way is Quentin Tarantino's war... More...
August 20, 2009:
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