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(1 - 50) of 55 OFCS Rating: 93% Fresh Page   12   > Next 4.5/5 "[Quentin Tarantino has] whacked history over the head and cut away all the boring bits, leaving behind a blood-drenched war epic like no other."   Cut Print Review   Anders Wotzke "Christoph Waltz delivers one of the most brilliant portrayals of a villain I've seen since Anthony Hopkins transformed himself into Hannibal Lecter."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker 5/5 "an insane destruction of the war film"   Filmcritic.com   Bill Gibron 4/4 "This is a FILM with blood in its veins, a heart in its body and a red hot engine in its chassis. It is alive with ideas and a geniune belief in the power of FILM to express them."   Kinetofilm   Brian Holcomb A "It's a patient, layered, stupefying doozy of a motion picture. Once again Tarantino has come to bend the staples of cinema, and the results are characteristically spectacular."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf "Tarantino seems to have gotten high on the fumes of his own (admittedly addictive) creation here and just not known when to quit."   PopMatters   Chris Barsanti A+ "Every film that Quentin Tarantino makes is a cinematic event of mammoth proportions, and this one is no different. It lives up to the director's brilliant international reputation and accordingly so does he."   Daily Radar   Cole Smithey 86/100 "Damn Gud Fun"   Apollo Guide   Dan Jardine 4.5/5 "Tarantino assembles his complicated plot and multitude of players with only occasional allegiance to history. As a result, all bets are off, making the film and its twists harder to predict."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 3.5/4 "As relentlessly audacious and engrossing as anything within Quentin Tarantino's flawless body of work..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair B+ "An unrealistic over-the-top madcap WW II drama that seamlessly mixes violence, vulgarian comedy and cinema lore."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 4/4 "Fierce, fascinating, literate, ballsy, shocking, whimsical, devastating, brazenly inventive, and nothing less than wholly hypnotic."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman 3/4 "Tarantino seems to be scrutinizing his obsession with the cinema by cleverly placing it into an apt historical context."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez A- "Amongst all the filmmakers working today, no one inspires more passionate discussion, debate and analysis than Quentin Tarantino."   FilmJerk.com   Edward Havens 4/5 "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."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B+ "The story is wildly, daringly imaginative, the sort of thing that very few filmmakers could even conceive, let alone execute."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3/4 "After two and a half hours, it's impossible to question the greatness within but hard to ignore what also makes it his most laboring and flawed feature to date."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress "Magnificent"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce B+ "So long as you don't mind twisted history and elaborate riffs on genre convention, you should find that there's much to savor here, not least Waltz's magnetic villainy."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 81/100 "Inglourious Basterds constantly challenges its viewer's emotions, making us question whether or not we should be feeling the compassion, hatred, or empathy that we do."   Film and Felt   Gabe Leibowitz "Tarantino's coup is to replace one set of tropes with another: his latest is a Western, spaghettisploitation with a National Socialist twist, merely disguised as a war movie...As such, he gives the W.W. II movie a much-needed kick in the ass."   The L Magazine   Henry Stewart 4/4 "With Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino has made his best movie since Pulp Fiction. He has also made what could arguably be considered the most audacious World War II movie of all-time."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/4 "Tarantino is much less interested in the gory possibilities of the premise than he is in old-fashioned suspense and tension"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 7/10 "...don´t expect a pure action adventure. That´s not what this one´s about."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio "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."   Film.com   Jonathan F. Richards 3/4 "I got the feeling that shock, confusion, and even disgust greeted the misinformed Jewish patrons itching for rapture."   Bangitout.com   Jordan Hiller 4.5/5 "97% mature, solid, suspenseful, respectful, artistic, violent, sophisticated, tremulous, funny, surprising"   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 4/5 "Detractors and proponents alike will see what they want to see in this two-and-a-half-hour World War II fable, which hits all the beats of a retribution-laden genre piece without ever entirely satiating character or audience bloodlust."   Time Out New York   Keith Uhlich 4.0/4.0 "A film geek's revisionist history of the Third Reich's death knell as portrayed by the Quentin Tarantino players."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 4/5 "Tarantino does not set out to make a war film like any one you have seen before. Instead, he's going for a genre mish-mash to deliver a unique film in and of itself."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 4/4 "Hysterically fun and gloriously excessive, Quentin Tarantino's latest is right up there with Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest A- "Quentin Tarantino is like a kid in a candy store reinventing WWII... [with] a wallop of a climax that reimagines a cinema auditorium as a Holocaust gas chamber by way of the throne of the great and powerful wizard of Oz."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "A delirious pastiche of WWII movie tropes via the naughty Nazi pictures that flooded Italy in The Night Porter's wake ... Tarantino knows exactly how vulgar it is to spin pulp entertainment from the iconography of mass murderers, and how bracingly"   Miss FlickChick   Maitland McDonagh 4/4 "There are no pure heroes or villains in Tarantino's vision of WWII, just varying degrees of the dredges of humanity in a time and place where the shadows have free reign."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik 5/10 "Some of it is good; much of it is preposterous. In trying to meld comedy and tragedy it entertains fitfully and requires more patience than most Tarantino films do."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper "[A] bleakly comic revenge fantasy... [that] is, hilariously, all about acknowledging the power of cinema: have your revenge, but have it on film..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 4.5/5 "Everything else [except the Basterds themselves] works so beautifully"   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 4/4 "I think this is a key work in Tarantino's career, because it shows that he can pull off a masterpiece without resorting too much to his well-established bag of tricks."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B+ "Christoph Waltz matches Lecter, Vader, and the Wicked Witch of the West with a performance that shows off his fluency in English, German, French, Italian...and evil."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow A- "Something close to an ideal Tarantino flick, an impertinent and often tasteless epic that rewrites WII history as a fairy tale for gonzo genre kicks."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 3/5 "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."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 5/5 "Who could possibly resist a World War II movie with a climax that somehow manages to work in exact visual quotes from not one, but two Brian DePalma movies?"   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 4.5/5 "Even though it's long and indulgent, this is a deeply entertaining romp, crafted to perfection by Tarantino and his amazing cast."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 5/5 "...a long, strange pop artifact, studded with instant-classic moments and sealed with a legitimately great image..."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves B "Effort still matters and originality is too damn scarce to lightly dismiss. Inglourious Basterds has plenty of both to spare."   Mania.com   Rob Vaux C+ "Enough action and ghoulish humor to offset all the boring "my dinner with Fritz" pace-killing scenes, adolescent slasher gore, misogyny and Bush-Cheney-inspired anything-goes war rules."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten A- "Tarantino fans, among many others, will have a great good time."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford "Is there another American filmmaker who takes such joy in telling stories and spinning cinematic spells as Quentin Tarantino?"   Seanax.com   Sean Axmaker 1.5/4 "The pop-art auteur's least-focused film to date, a rambling wreck of shrewd ideas and cinematic influences that never interlock into their own identifiable movie."   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell  (1 - 50) of 55 OFCS Rating: 93% Fresh Page   12   > Next