Inglourious Basterds (2009)

All Critics (268) | Top Critics (49) | Fresh (239) | Rotten (31) | DVD (8)

Like a bat to the head, it's not too subtle, but you can't help but watch.

May 6, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Laremy Legel

Film.com

Top Critic

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

December 16, 2009 Full Review | Comments (20)

Stephanie Zacharek

Salon.com

Top Critic

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.

September 10, 2009 Full Review | Comments (122)

Jonathan F. Richards

Film.com

Top Critic

Tarantino's vigorously accomplished 'Inglourious Basterds'

September 3, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Joe Baltake

Passionate Moviegoer

Top Critic

Landa is such a wily and despicable concoction that, in movie terms, he's almost impossible not to like. And therein lies part of my problem with this movie.

August 21, 2009 Full Review | Comments (4)

Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

Top Critic

I'm tempted to say Tarantino has done it again, but I doubt anyone has ever done anything like his dazzlingly original World War II movie, Inglourious Basterds.

August 21, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Colin Covert

Minneapolis Star Tribune

Top Critic

Representative of Quentin Tarantino as a whole, Inglourious Basterds demonstrates his strengths and weaknesses. In short, there are some great scenes, but also too much self-indulgence.

January 4, 2013 Full Review

Stephen Carty

Flix Capacitor

With Inglourious Basterds, he's managed to make a movie that will polarise more than ever; its lack of immediacy will frustrate casual audiences; its unfocused story will likely upset the QT hardcore.

September 29, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

They're inventing a new junk-food product line for Inglourious Basterds - the White Elephant Supreme.

August 29, 2011 Full Review

Kelly Vance

East Bay Express

There will be blood.

April 4, 2011 Full Review

Dave White

Movies.com

Inglourious Basterds not only knows that it is a fictional movie, but also that it is being watched by an audience, and herein lays its greatest achievement.

October 27, 2010 Full Review

Simon Miraudo

Quickflix

WWII revamped Quentin Tarantino style, Inglourious Basterds succeeds as the ultimate fantasy revenge story, a Kill Hitler which stands as one the best works in the career of its influential filmmaker.

August 3, 2010 Full Review

Matthew Pejkovic

Matt's Movie Reviews

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.

May 11, 2010 Full Review | Comments (18)

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.

April 15, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Sam Bathe

Fan The Fire

Inglourious Basterds is worthy of Dr. Strangelove.

February 5, 2010 Full Review | Comments (8)

Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

... the disc producers have skipped the usual commentary track and traditional making-of documentary for a more eclectic collection of supplements...

January 10, 2010 Full Review

Sean Axmaker

Seanax.com

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.

December 22, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Jeffrey Chen

Window to the Movies

A glourious rude mix 'n match of subtitles, nazi scalps, guerrilla cinema and testicle blood-soaked subterranean French cellar saloon shootouts, the movie is a vintage QT Western European western. In other words, Tarantino's WWII heartfelt warsploit rocks

December 20, 2009 Full Review

Prairie Miller

NewsBlaze

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

December 18, 2009 Full Review | Comments (3)

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

• 1. Lt. Aldo Raine: You know something Uitivich? I think this just might be my masterpiece.
  – Submitted by Jean R (37 days ago)
• 1. Lt. Archie Hicox: Well, if this is it, old boy, I hope you don't mind if I go out speaking the King's.
  – Submitted by Thomas G (2 months ago)
• 1. Col. Hans "The Jew Hunter" Landa: Ooh, that's a bingo! Is that the way you say it? 'That's a bingo'?
  2. Lt. Aldo Raine: You just say 'Bingo.'
  3. Col. Hans "The Jew Hunter" Landa: Bingo! How fun!
  – Submitted by Cody H (4 months ago)
• 1. Lt. Aldo Raine: Y'know what, Uttivich? I think this might just be my masterpiece.
  – Submitted by Dave M (4 months ago)
• 1. Col. Hans "The Jew Hunter" Landa: What is the American expression? 'If the shoe fits, you must wear it.'
  – Submitted by Dave M (4 months ago)
• 1. Lt. Aldo Raine: Every German we meet wearing a Nazi uniform... they're gonna die.
  – Submitted by Victoria A (5 months ago)