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Inglourious Basterds (2009)

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Reviews Counted:258

Fresh:228

Rotten:30

Average Rating:7.6/10

Consensus: A classic Tarantino genre-blending thrill ride, Inglourious Basterds is violent, unrestrained, and thoroughly entertaining,

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Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong graphic violence, language and brief sexuality

Runtime: 2 hr. 32 min.

Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama

Theatrical Release: Aug 21, 2009 Wide

Box Office: $120.5M

Synopsis: In German-occupied France, Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. Shosanna narrowly escapes... In German-occupied France, Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as "The Basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own... [More]

Starring: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth

Starring: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Jacky Ido, B.J. Novak, Omar Doom, August Diehl, Denis Menochet, Sylvester Groth, Martin Wuttke, Mike Myers, Julie Dreyfus, Richard Sammel, Alexander Fehling, Rod Taylor, Sönke Möhring, Samm Levine, Paul Rust, Michael Bacall, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey, Petra Hartung, Volker Zack Michalowski, Ken Duken, Christian Berkel, Annie-Sophie Franck, Léa Seydoux, Tina Rodriguez, Lena Friedrich, Ludger Pistor, Jana Pallaske, Wolfgang Lindner, Michael Kranz, Rainer Bock, Andre Penvern, Sebastian Hülk, Buddy Joe Hooker, Carlos Fidel, Christian Brückner, Hilmar Eichhorn, Patrick Elias, Eva Löbau, Salvadore Brandt, Jasper Linnewedel, Wilifried Hochholdinger, Olivier Girard, Michael Scheel, Leo Plank, Andreas Tietz, Bo Svenson, Enzo G. Castellari

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Screenwriter: Quentin Tarantino
Producer: Lawrence Bender
Distributor: The Weinstein Company

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REVIEWS FOR INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

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Tarantino is at times like a flamboyant, egomaniacal orchestra conductor, gesticulating wildly and turning to the audience to make sure we know that the show's about him.

Full Review Source: Looking Closer | comment Comment
May 11, 2010
Jeffrey Overstreet
Jeffrey Overstreet
Looking Closer

Despite some of the scenes dragging on too long, Inglourious Basterds is still a lot of fun, altering history for the better as the Nazis feel the force of redemption.

Full Review Source: Fan The Fire | comment Comment
Apr 15, 2010
Sam Bathe
Sam Bathe
Fan The Fire

Inglourious Basterds is worthy of Dr. Strangelove, which is to say, its an inflammatory, cinema-defining masterpiece.

Full Review Source: Projection Booth | comment 2 Comments
Feb 5, 2010
Rob Humanick
Rob Humanick
Projection Booth

Shows how most of us turn to film for both fantasy escape and an avenue to make the abstract past tangible, enough to even possibly, and powerfully, replace actual history.

Full Review Source: Window to the Movies | comment Comment
Dec 22, 2009
Jeffrey Chen
Jeffrey Chen
Window to the Movies

A brilliant rebound with a wonderfully complex story, a great cast, and a score that's really up to par with Tarantino's standards...

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment 2 Comments
Dec 18, 2009
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Quentin Tarantino seems to be hanging on to a lost world of moviemaking. He may be nuts. But he's a nut who cares.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment 8 Comments
Dec 16, 2009
Stephanie Zacharek
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
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Tarantino's World War II epic is both bloody and talky.

Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | comment 2 Comments
Dec 14, 2009
James Rocchi
James Rocchi
Common Sense Media

Tarantino's visual style and flare for the fantasy make for an intriguing and colorful World War II drama.

Full Review Source: Oscar Guy | comment Comment
Dec 12, 2009
Wesley Lovell
Wesley Lovell
Oscar Guy

Mr. Waltz's dynamic performance contrasts satirical and dramatic hues, effectively charismatic and repulsive at once.

Full Review Source: Cinemalogue.com | comment 6 Comments
Dec 6, 2009
Rubin Safaya
Rubin Safaya
Cinemalogue.com

Un divertido disparate sobre tema serio que es, en definitiva, una celebración y reivindicación del cine como espectáculo. Gran trabajo del austriaco Christoph Waltz en el papel de Hans Landa.

Full Review Source: Uruguay Total | comment Comment
Nov 14, 2009
Enrique Buchichio
Enrique Buchichio
Uruguay Total

It's great in parts.

Full Review | comment 2 Comments
Nov 4, 2009
Mark Palermo
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Simply Tarantino's best. A very intelligent script that combines war movie elements with some pointed observations about violence in movies and in society.

Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | comment 7 Comments
Oct 25, 2009
Louis Proyect
Louis Proyect
rec.arts.movies.reviews

Não importando a qual gênero 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.

Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | comment Comment
Oct 9, 2009
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

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.

Full Review Source: Suite101.com | comment 12 Comments
Sep 22, 2009
Nick Rogers
Nick Rogers
Suite101.com

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.

Full Review Source: Brand X | comment 2 Comments
Sep 20, 2009
Andy Klein
Andy Klein
Brand X

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!"

Full Review Source: Entertainment Spectrum | comment 4 Comments
Sep 11, 2009
Jolene Mendez
Jolene Mendez
Entertainment Spectrum

97% mature, solid, suspenseful, respectful, artistic, violent, sophisticated, tremulous, funny, surprising

Full Review Source: Cinerina | comment 8 Comments
Sep 10, 2009
Karina Montgomery
Karina Montgomery
Cinerina

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.

Full Review Source: Film.com | comment 99 Comments
Sep 10, 2009
Jonathan F. Richards
Jonathan F. Richards
Film.com
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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.

Full Review Source: CultureCatch | comment 1 Comment
Sep 10, 2009
Brandon Judell
Brandon Judell
CultureCatch

One basterd of a movie... Who wants to hear Quentin Tarantino dialogue in a foreign language, thus having to read it?

Full Review Source: Can Magazine | comment 71 Comments
Sep 9, 2009
Fred Topel
Fred Topel
Can Magazine
 
 
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