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Django Unchained (2012)

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Average Rating: 8/10
Reviews Counted: 238
Fresh: 210 | Rotten: 28

Bold, bloody, and stylistically daring, Django Unchained is another incendiary masterpiece from Quentin Tarantino.

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Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 44
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 10

Bold, bloody, and stylistically daring, Django Unchained is another incendiary masterpiece from Quentin Tarantino.

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Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Django Unchained stars Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal: finding and rescuing Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long

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Western, Drama

Quentin Tarantino

Apr 16, 2013

$162.8M

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Critic Reviews for Django Unchained

All Critics (238) | Top Critics (44) | Fresh (212) | Rotten (28) | DVD (2)

A film bursting with pleasures great and small ...

January 8, 2013 Full Review Source: Time Out
Tom Huddleston
Time Out
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Django Unchained is Tarantino's most complete movie yet. It is also his most vital. His storytelling talents match the heft of the tale.

January 4, 2013 Full Review Source: Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
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Django Unchained has mislaid its melancholy, and its bitter wit, and become a raucous romp. It is a tribute to the spaghetti Western, cooked al dente, then cooked a while more, and finally sauced to death.

January 4, 2013 Full Review Source: New Yorker
Anthony Lane
New Yorker
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Genre-movie-mad writer-director Quentin Tarantino's foray into Western World is a pretty grave disappointment.

January 2, 2013 Full Review Source: MSN Movies
Glenn Kenny
MSN Movies
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Wildly extravagant, ferociously violent, ludicrously lurid and outrageously entertaining, yet also, remarkably, very much about the pernicious lunacy of racism and, yes, slavery's singular horrors.

December 27, 2012 Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
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Quentin Tarantino no longer makes movies; he makes trailers.

December 26, 2012 Full Review Source: Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
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Django may be unchained, but his movie could have used some tighter shackles.

May 7, 2013 Full Review Source: COEDMagazine.com
Phil Villarreal
COEDMagazine.com

Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained is a brilliant mixture of over-the-top violence and clever writing, making for the most entertaining film of 2012.

April 23, 2013 Full Review Source: We Got This Covered
Jeremy Lebens
We Got This Covered

Django Unchained, arriving on Blu-ray and DVD with a meager collection of extras, is certainly a zesty night at the movies, but underneath the film's mock pretensions is a relatively conventional revenge thriller.

April 19, 2013 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Slant Magazine

Slavery reimagined as a messy splatterfest where massa gets exactly what he deserves, and then some!

April 12, 2013 Full Review Source: Sly Fox
Kam Williams
Sly Fox

A bloody masterpiece. Funny, Thrilling, cleverly structured.

April 8, 2013 Full Review Source: Triple J
Marc Fennell
Triple J

It's a testament to Foxx and Washington's talent, presence, and proven rapport that they keep the central emotional hook strongly present as their underwritten roles are continually pushed to the sidelines by Tarantino's overwriting for others.

April 1, 2013 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

Countless great scenes in the Tarantino universe

March 24, 2013 Full Review Source: Movie Habit
Marty Mapes
Movie Habit

It's exactly what you expect from Tarantino, so if this movie finds itself challenged in any way, it's in being expected.

March 14, 2013 Full Review Source: Movies.com
Dave White
Movies.com

...the time always flies, and Tarantino gives us a lot of movie for our money.

March 13, 2013 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

Tarantino's take on slavery is wildly creative, funny and frightening, true to form yet never predictable.

March 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Concrete Playground
Tom Glasson
Concrete Playground

Different setting, same old Tarantino

February 28, 2013 Full Review Source: Movie Habit
Robert Denerstein
Movie Habit

Slavery is to "Django" what the Holocaust was to Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" -- a colossal wrong to be righted by a film geek's best weapons: artistry, imagination and wicked humor.

February 28, 2013 Full Review Source: Bloomberg News
Greg Evans
Bloomberg News

Tarantino is, in essence, a classicist who invests the bulk of his drama and tension in lengthy dialogue exchanges that are infinitely more compelling that his elongated sequences of cathartic violence.

February 15, 2013 Full Review Source: 3AW
Jim Schembri
3AW

Still wonderfully witty and violent sequences that only Tarantino could manage or dare.

February 4, 2013 Full Review Source: Rip It Up
David 'Mad Dog' Bradley
Rip It Up

This bloody, hilarious, shocking, and righteously angry film is the kind of great art and great trash [Tarantino] aspires to make.

February 4, 2013 Full Review Source: Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
Mark Pfeiffer
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

...compulsively watchable for the majority of its (admittedly overlong) running time...

February 4, 2013 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

I had a good enough time to wish that it had been better.

February 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Cinemania
Dan Jardine
Cinemania Source: Cinemania

Part-blaxploitation film, part-spaghetti Western and all-Tarantino, 'Django Unchained' comes charging at its audiences with guns a-blazin'. It's not quite up to par with 'Reservoir Dogs' or 'Pulp Fiction,' but it's still Tarantino - enough said.

February 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

Overlong, overblown and overly self-indulgent. But excess is what Tarantino does. And just as he won't put one word in his characters' mouths when he can have them utter 10; he won't dispatch a bad guy with one bullet when he can discharge a dozen.

January 29, 2013 Full Review Source: Movie Talk
Jason Best
Movie Talk

It would seem that this film's irreverence isn't a case of didn't-try-can't-fail dismissiveness, but rather something more innocuous: it's simply the world interpreted through Tarantino's boisterous perspective.

January 28, 2013 Full Review Source: The Aristocrat
Adam Ross
The Aristocrat
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Audience Reviews for Django Unchained

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Quentin Tarantino's first attempt at a Western will be the surprise hit of the year....Reason? Tarantino got this from a unreliable source ranging from Italian Westerns to the blaxploitation era of movies(namely the films of 1970's black action stars like Fred Williamson and Jim Brown),and it will be a must see that features Oscar winning actor Jamie Foxx, Oscar winning actor Samuel L. Jackson along with Oscar winning actor Christoph Waltz and Oscar nominated actors Leonardo DiCapio and Kerry Washington. "Django Unchained" upon it's general release on December 25,2012 went on to grossing over $220 million at the boxoffice making one of the top ten highest grossing films of 2012. It was Nominated for Five Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director(Quentin Tarantino),Best Actor(Jamie Foxx),Best Supporting Actor Nominations for Christoph Waltz, Leonardo Di Caprio, and Samuel L. Jackson. It won two Oscars for Best Original Screenplay and won Christoph Waltz the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
July 19, 2012
rayman0071
Mister Caple

Super Reviewer

While not the best film Tarantino has ever done, Django Unchained has plenty of pleasures for fans of his work who just want a bloody good time (literally). Django has all the ingredients of his best work even though his penchant for witty dialogue between characters is a little muted in this one compared to others. That's not to say that there aren't some incredibly funny lines and completely unexpected moments, but there's not as much of them. This one is a little blunter in its storytelling and ideas, but not so much as to get in the way or be bothersome. Some people will undoubtedly be turned off by the excessive use of language throughout the film as well as the typical over the top violence (when someone is shot, they don't bleed, they make it rain), but Tarantino fans expect nothing less. Tarantino delivers some truly memorable characters once again played with utmost skill by the cast. Christoph Waltz's best comes out when in a Tarantino movie, proven by his two Oscars. Jamie Foxx gets the less demanding role among everyone, but we still have to have rooting interest in him, which we do. Leonard DiCaprio gives my favorite performance in the film, showing just how vile of a character he can portray to get away from that pretty boy image people still for some reason associate him with. I honestly don't know why he didn't get more awards attention. The only negative I can come up with is that the film is a little long and loses a little steam in the middle, but it picks itself right back up again towards the end. If you love Taratino films, you'll love this, but if you don't, then stay far away. I'm sure most people already know that by now, though.
November 10, 2012
jlewis07
Josh Lewis

Super Reviewer

Django Unchained Quotes

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    1. d'Artagnan: I can't fight no more, Monsieur Candie.
    – Submitted by John D (10 days ago)
    1. Django: Now, all you black folks, I suggest you get away from all these white folks! Not you, Stephen. You're right where you belong.
    – Submitted by John D (10 days ago)
    1. Billy Crash: D-jango! You black son of a bitch!
    2. Django: The D is silent, hillbilly.
    – Submitted by John D (10 days ago)
    1. Calvin Candie: Hey! You lay your palms flat on that tabletop! If you lift those palms off of that turtleshell tabletop, Mr. Pooch is gonna let loose through both ends of that sawed-off!
    2. Calvin Candie: There have been a lot of lies said around this dinner table here tonight, but that you can believe!
    – Submitted by John D (10 days ago)
    1. Dicky Speck: You go to hell, dentist!
    – Submitted by Eric T (17 days ago)
    1. Big Daddy: And I'm gonna personally strip and clip that garboon myself.
    – Submitted by Arun C (28 days ago)

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How did this movie get good reviews? 10 hours ago 11
Earth to America: This film is totally overrated. 3 hours ago 258
Phil Villarreal 1 day ago 1
Which writer-director is better: Quentin Tarantino or Christopher Nolan? 1 day ago 114
The Tarantino Problem 3 days ago 165

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