Tarantino designed this revisionist western to blow people's gaskets. Packed with physical comedy, bloody action and hell-bent revenge, it looks like a classic widescreen Sergio Leone western...

| Mar 31, 2020

A good film, and a crazily entertaining film, until Tarantino does blow everything up, at which point it just becomes rather silly.

| Sep 4, 2018

The film is at times brilliant but mostly infuriating. It is a good movie in that masturbatory way most Tarantino films are good.

| May 25, 2018

Django Unchained is a ruthless and romantic epic that is also filled with unbridled entertainment that challenges audiences, rather than coddling them.

| Original Score: A | Sep 7, 2017

It's an intelligently provocative, massively entertaining exercise in postmodern revisionism, highlighting how shamefully few movies Hollywood has ever made about slavery.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 1, 2017

It was a mixed bag for me; some great moments scattered about amongst lots of humdrum, considering the subject matter.

| Aug 15, 2017

But I absolutely love and was blown away by Django Unchained, and I can't wait to see it again, and again after that.

| Aug 15, 2017

The direction stays firmly within the predictable bounds of Tarantino's violent sensibility

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 9, 2016

The movie moves, with crispness and intelligence, arriving at the most purely satisfying conclusion we could possibly ask for. Audiences are going to eat that last reel up. I know I did.

| Jun 21, 2016

The horror that Django Unchained expresses isn't of slavery, finally, but of a filmmaker attempting historical tragedy while shackled by his own supercilious persona.

| Jun 14, 2016

Django Unchained is 165 minutes and nothing much happens beyond talk and the provision of corpses. The plot lurches around and the artful structure of Pulp Fiction has been abandoned.

| Jun 13, 2013

Tarantino's best for ages, absolutely not to be missed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 18, 2013

Who needs facts when there is great vengeance, furious anger and the path of righteousness to attend to? The magpie deserves our respect. Always. Forever.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 17, 2013

[A] piece of have-it-all-ways hokum ...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 17, 2013

Not a masterpiece, but a funny, violent, very entertaining crowdpleaser.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 17, 2013

As in all of Tarantino's best films, there is a strange and brilliant magic at work here; a dark, bubbling alchemy of art and junk.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 17, 2013

Another strong, sparky and bloody entry in the QT canon.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 14, 2013

A film bursting with pleasures great and small ...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2013

Django Unchained is Tarantino's most complete movie yet. It is also his most vital. His storytelling talents match the heft of the tale.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 4, 2013

Django Unchained has mislaid its melancholy, and its bitter wit, and become a raucous romp. It is a tribute to the spaghetti Western, cooked al dente, then cooked a while more, and finally sauced to death.

| Jan 4, 2013