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Inglourious Basterds

2009

Quentin Tarantino

Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Laurent, Diane Kruger ...

7.8

157,290

War. Action. Comedy During the time of WWII, U.S. soldiers who are about to be executed, are offered a chance at reprieve. It all begins in German-occupied France, where Shoshanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Tarantino rewrites history with the only authority he has: his sovereignty as a filmmaker. Will Basterds polarize audiences? That's a given. But for anyone professing true movie love, there's no resisting it. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"To hell with the history books, this is Tarantino's own war. (...) a big, bold, audacious war movie (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)."	POS
United States	David Denby The New Yorker	"Is not boring, but it’s ridiculous and appallingly insensitive (...) The film is skillfully made, but it’s too silly to be enjoyed, even as a joke."	NEG
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"From the moment charming, smiling, laughing Nazi [Waltz] (...) sweeps onto the screen, he owns this film even more than its maker. (...) rarely has one of his movies felt as interminable as this one"	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"By turns surprising, nutty, windy, audacious and a bit caught up in its own cleverness, the picture is a completely distinctive piece of American pop art"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A transcendentally disappointing dud, in which Brad Pitt delivers his most charmless performance to date (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"A surprisingly tame war movie (...) The film is by no means terrible but those things we think of as being Tarantino-esque, the long stretches of wickedly funny dialogue, the humor in the violence and outsized characters strutting across the screen, are largely missing."	NEU
United Kingdom	Chris Hewitt Empire	"It's rather brilliant. Every bit as idiosyncratic as the spelling of its title, it's a wonderfully-acted movie that subverts expectation at every turn. And it may represent the most confident, audacious writing and directing of QT's career."	POS
United States	Ty Burr Boston Globe	"Does it work? On a scene-by-scene basis, 'Inglourious Basterds' is prime, if well-worn, Tarantino (...) It’s also his weakest film yet (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"It's the first movie of his artistic maturity, the film his talent has been promising for more than 15 years. The picture contains all the things his fans like about Tarantino"	POS
United States	Richard Corliss Time	"'Basterds' is long and, for the hypercharged auteur, surprisingly wan. It has to be declared a misfire."	NEG
United Kingdom	Emma Jones BBC	"Eye-catching (...) Once again, the US director has blurred film genres. (...) Tarantino has made a glorious, silly, blood-spattered return."	POS
United Kingdom	Sukhdev Sandhu Telegraph	"'Inglourious Basterds' abounds in pointillist detail (...) These details though add up to very little (...) It’s a film that’s only interested in film (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"Its moments of greatness—and there are more than a couple—feel weirdly disconnected, stuck in a movie that doesn’t know how to put them together"	NEU

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