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Django Unchained (2012)

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Average Rating: 8/10
Reviews Counted: 245
Fresh: 216 | Rotten: 29

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

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Average Rating: 7.5/10
Critic Reviews: 46
Fresh: 35 | Rotten: 11

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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All Critics (245) | Top Critics (46) | Fresh (216) | Rotten (29) | DVD (2)

Django Unchained is 165 minutes and nothing much happens beyond talk and the provision of corpses. The plot lurches around and the artful structure of Pulp Fiction has been abandoned.

June 13, 2013 Full Review Source: The New Republic
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A film bursting with pleasures great and small ...

January 8, 2013 Full Review Source: 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
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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
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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
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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
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It is plainly a nonstop riot of humor and excitement, and one that matches its delicate nature with an equally calculated sense of importance in leading us to the most satisfying climax possible.

July 30, 2013 Full Review Source: Cinemaphile.org
Cinemaphile.org

If the slightly rambling Django Unchained is 'lesser Tarantino' -- you know, only a B instead of an A -- it's still a heady, delirious good time.

July 28, 2013 Full Review Source: Twitch

You will definitely get your money's worth. But this is one of Tarantino's minor works.

June 23, 2013 Full Review Source: Deadspin
Deadspin

Low-level Tarantino inspires exploration, but delivers little more than a blood bath.

June 18, 2013 Full Review Source: Cinema Sight
Cinema Sight

The fear, anger and betrayal in Jackson's eyes, when Stephen feels his place is threatened, says more about the cruelties of slavery than the ultra- violent, sickening passages of "Django Unchained."

May 23, 2013 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee
Sacramento Bee

Tarantino slyly takes the dirty diaper that is slavery in America and rubs it in our face.

May 13, 2013 Full Review Source: The Patriot Ledger
The Patriot Ledger

Django may be unchained, but his movie could have used some tighter shackles.

May 7, 2013 Full Review Source: COED.com
COED.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
We Got This Covered

A bloody masterpiece. Funny, Thrilling, cleverly structured.

April 8, 2013 Full Review Source: Triple J
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
TheMovieReport.com

Countless great scenes in the Tarantino universe

March 24, 2013 Full Review Source: Movie Habit
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
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
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
Concrete Playground

Different setting, same old Tarantino

February 28, 2013 Full Review Source: Movie Habit
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
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

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

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

Audience Reviews for Django Unchained

It was pretty much what i expected, but it was too much of it... should have been an hour less of it!
December 20, 2012
Tomassgringo

Super Reviewer

Cristoph Waltz was superb. A bit preachy and almost too violent, but a great frickin flick none the less. Quentin has continued successfully on his quest to only make amazing movies.
August 20, 2013
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    1. Calvin Candie: Stephen, you have nails for breakfast? Whats the matter? Why you so ornery? You miss me?
    2. Stephen: Oh yes sir, I... I missed you. Like a, like a hog miss slop. Like a...a baby miss mammy's titty. I miss you like I misses a rock in my shoe.
    – Submitted by Jeff R (25 days ago)
    1. Dr. King Schultz: Stop playing Beethoven.
    – Submitted by Imad D (3 months ago)
    1. Dr. King Schultz: You sure that's him?
    2. Django: Yeah
    3. Dr. King Schultz: Positive?
    4. Django: I don't know
    5. Dr. King Schultz: You don't know if your're positive?
    6. Django: I don't know what positive mean
    7. Dr. King Schultz: It means you're sure
    8. Django: Yes
    9. Dr. King Schultz: Yes what?
    10. Django: Yes, I'm sure that's Ellis Brittle
    11. Django: I'm positive he dead.
    – Submitted by Maireni A (3 months ago)
    1. Calvin Candie: Broomhilda is my property. And I can choose to do with my property, whatever I so desire.
    – Submitted by Omar F (3 months ago)
    1. Calvin Candie: Gentlemen, you had my curiosity, but now you have my attention.
    – Submitted by Kyle W (4 months ago)
    1. Calvin Candie: Gentlemen, You Have My Curiosity. But You Have My Attention.
    – Submitted by Alex K (4 months ago)
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