Django Unchained Reviews

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

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.

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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."

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: A-

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

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

A bloody masterpiece. Funny, Thrilling, cleverly structured.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Countless great scenes in the Tarantino universe

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Different setting, same old Tarantino

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: ****1/2

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: A

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

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: 73/100

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4