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OFCS Rating: 88% Fresh |
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| "Do I feel cheated by having to buy another movie ticket to see how 'Kill Bill' ends? You betcha." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Betty Jo Tucker |
10/10 | "Tarantino is now halfway to creating another classic on his short list of outstanding accomplishments. It’s splendid to see him back in action." |
| Modamag.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
| "Ripping off and rearranging moves, ideas, and codes from seemingly countless sources, Kill Bill is a careful film that looks glib, a nuanced film that looks shallow." |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
82/100 | "A wondrous ode to the joie de vivre of filmmaking, paying homage to great ‘60s and ‘70s action flicks from around the globe." |
| Apollo Guide |
| Dan Jardine |
B+ | "Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu take us to the edge of taste, over the cliffs of gore, and right into pop culture sublime." |
| EDGE Boston |
| David Foucher |
4/4 | "...a movie with such raw ambition and spirit that it literally reinvents the standards of everything it can be associated with." |
| Cinemaphile.org |
| David Keyes |
2.5/4 | "Divided we fall. What Kill Bill Vol. 1 loses in plot, tension, and character development it (almost) makes up for in terms of sheer unadulterated style." |
| Movie Boeuf |
| David N. Butterworth |
| "Throwing together a miscellany of cinematic elements from Japanese yakuza and samurai films, cheesy spaghetti westerns and Shaw brothers martial-arts movies, it's a gleeful exercise in style, a genre picture that crosses several genres." |
| Portland Tribune |
| Dawn Taylor |
B | "One of the greatest action escapist films ever made by a nerd." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
3.5/4 | "A marvel of strikingly original action setpieces and tight plotting, surrounded by a visual lyricism difficult to translate into words." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
1.5/4 | "Kill Bill: Volume 1 is essentially a pop culture wanker’s failed multimedia experiment, a vacuous junk heap of dorky gags and riffs, violent anime and offensive slapstick." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Ed Gonzalez |
| "(...) una fiesta, una orgía de sangre, humor y locura desmedida, excesiva y caprichosa, seguramente no del gusto de todos." |
| Uruguay Total |
| Enrique Buchichio |
A | "An indulgent, outlandish, and thoroughly entertaining ballet of blood." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
3.5/4 | "Maybe when Tarantino 'Godfather sagas-it' God knows when, Kill Bill will be the masterpiece we hope it is and he surely believes it to be" |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
B- | "By god, this could have been great. Spectacular. A masterpiece. If only Quentin had decided to make an epic rather than an epic joke." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
3/4 | "The end result: a reckless and rollicking gem that purposely swims in its inane and preposterous frivolity...this high-powered assault of fast-paced foolishness is infectious" |
| Movie Eye |
| Frank Ochieng |
B | "It may be nothing but style without substance--but what style! And it certainly beats the vast majority of pictures, which offer neither." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
4/4 | "Volume 1 is a pure sugar-rush, an adrenaline-packed needle that injects wild fun into almost every conceivable vein." |
| eCinemaCenter.com |
| Gabe Leibowitz |
B | "Tarantino wants you to have a good time, and he’d be the first to admit that it isn’t Citizen Kane." |
| Mixed Reviews |
| Gabriel Shanks |
2.5/4 | "As a whole, Kill Bill might be an entertaining product, but, after seeing Volume 1, I was insulted." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
3.5/4 | "A giddy, gory, beautifully mounted trash spectacle … at least so far." |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
4/5 | "Quentin Tarantino goes forward to the past -- and reclaims the cinematic style that he defined." |
| Netflix |
| James Rocchi |
3/4 | "Quentin Tarantino comes out of the box with a vengeance, intent on the idea of parlaying hardcore grind-house into trendy art-house." |
| Aufmuth.com |
| Jeanne Aufmuth |
10/10 | "A movie of confident, professional showmanship; it uses the screen as a conduit to directly transfer the enthusiasm its creator feels to the audience, delivering giddy energy." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
1/5 | "[T]he cinematic equivalent of karaoke or bad photocopies, mindlessly adopting style while forgetting the basic precepts of storytelling." |
| Filmcritic.com |
| Jeremiah Kipp |
8/10 | "... inventive, exciting, ballsy, violent, entertaining, stylized and brilliant." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
3/4 | "Kill Bill is pretty stupid, but there are also moments of beauty and brilliance." |
| Big Picture Big Sound |
| Joe Lozito |
7/10 | "...a gymnastic ballet of violence and a veritable orgy in blood." |
| DVDTown.com |
| John J. Puccio |
9/10 | "Tarantino pays tribute to so many other films, you'd need a doctorate in cinema with a minor in pop culture references to catch it all." |
| Planet Sick-Boy |
| Jon Popick |
3.5 | "A movie that, without Uma, would have ultimately been a stylistic masterpiece, but never the stirring epic that it is shaping up to be.
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| Bangitout.com |
| Jordan Hiller |
3/4 | "'Tarantino logra un buen trabajo a secas. Ninguna obra maestra, pero si una buena cinta para pasar el rato y reírse de las exageraciones mostradas'" |
| Moviola |
| Jorge Avila Andrade |
5/5 | "This is one killer kick-*** of a movie!" |
| 3BlackChicks Review |
| Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel |
4/5 | "It's worth paying for if it's what you're into; otherwise any neophytes will probably feel a little turned off." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
3/4 | "Hell hath no fury like a Tarantino heroine scorned." |
| MovieCrypt.com |
| Kevin A. Ranson |
4/4 | "A whole lot of movie, more than what your average 5 or 6 flicks deliver." |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
3.5/5 | "If your sensibilities are in line with Tarantino's, the result is sheer sleaze Nirvana." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
4/4 | "Quentin Tarantino is a joyous filmmaker, one whose love of film is clear in every frame of Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and one whose euphoria is absolutely infectious." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
3/4 | "While Hollywood was catching up with Hong Kong, Tarantino was studying Japanese pulp fiction" |
| Movie Habit |
| Marty Mapes |
| "Embarrassingly masturbatory..." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
3.5/5 | "Kill Bill Vol. 1 is one entertaining and stylish thrill ride, no more, no less." |
| Film Threat |
| Michael Dequina |
4/5 | "Tarantino throws every trick he knows at the screen, including an animated sequence, in an effort to make a pure B-movie. He's succeeded." |
| Goatdog's Movies |
| Michael W. Phillips, Jr. |
4/4 | "Tarantino is totally in charge at every second. He knows exactly what he’s doing, exactly what he wants to convey from moment to moment." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
B- | "Ectomorph goddess Uma Thurman gives a dazzling performance. The stars have the acting and action chops to more than hold their own in fight scenes with eye-popping visuals that would overwhelm most performers." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
5/5 | "Confesso que ri ao perceber que daria 5 estrelas para este longa – mas qualquer outra cotação seria injusta e preconceituosa." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
| "A film that tells an essentially simple story in such a wonderfully flashy fashion and Tarantino’s intoxication with the joys of movie magic, like Francis Coppola’s, is so giddy and contagious that the audience becomes as excited with watching it as he cl" |
| Critic Doctor |
| Peter Sobczynski |
4/5 | "The characters are vivid enough to rise above [Tarantino's] cinematic nerdiness. Thurman is shockingly good." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
5/5 | "Kill Bill is a temple of worship -- a devout hymn of praise to crap cinema (which isn't always crappy)." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Rob Gonsalves |
B | "Tarantino the Genius is long gone; we'll have to settle for Tarantino the Fairly Interesting." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
B | "Despite all the cinematic tricks employed in this film, it ends up being a just another action film at heart. As such, it is good, but not among the best of the genre." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
B | "Busby Berkeley would be proud of its choreography and imagination, as would Roger Corman for the splatter fest" |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Robin Clifford |
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OFCS Rating: 88% Fresh |
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