Django Unchained Reviews

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

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

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.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

The funniest western since Blazing Saddles, the bloodiest since The Wild Bunch and the most visually stylish since The Good, The Bad & The Ugly.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Guilty of almost every indulgence [Tarantino] has ever been accused of...but it's hard to hold it against him, when the results are this bloody good

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

Ultimately enjoyable, if a little underwhelming, if nothing else we can be grateful to Django Unchained for allowing the phrase "that's the worst thing since Quentin Tarantino's Australian accent".

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Impolitic though it might be to suggest it, there's something extremely satisfying about the violence here-though, for my money, it resides less in seeing these racist thugs get their comeuppance, than in the director's staging of it.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5