It wasn't satisfying... Perhaps I'll change my mind. Perhaps I won't. But today I'll simply say that I thought it was inglorious indeed.

| Dec 22, 2020

When Tarantino sent this message to moviegoers in 2009, it's unlikely that he imagined how relevant it would be in 2019.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 19, 2019

The performance of Christoph Waltz, playing the Nazi Gestapo figure Col. Hans Landa, is the highlight of the film. His ability to convey courtliness and sympathy and then go to commit the cruelest of horrors is simply superb.

| Jan 17, 2018

The movie left me both exhilarated and frustrated. Not quite a masterpiece, it might qualify as a "messterpiece," an unwieldy, unfocused film with unforgettable moments that nearly get lost in a sea of excess.

| Sep 18, 2017

The movie is a bit long, well over two hours and probably could have been two hours had the first half of the movie not dragged. But the second half is well worth the build-up.

| Original Score: B | Sep 12, 2017

Personally, I wearied of Tarantino's breathless shtick long ago, but I must admit I enjoyed Inglourious Basterds more than anything he's done in years.

Full Review | Jun 30, 2015

The film might not be Tarantino's masterpiece but it is his most entertaining and exhilarating effort since Pulp Fiction.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2014

It has been a problem in the past that Tarantino's voice could be heard in the lines he wrote, but the mesmerising Waltz takes that gleeful relish of language and presents it as a vital aspect of Landa's professional pride.

Full Review | Aug 23, 2014

Despite the injection of content from a variety of directions, Basterds lacks the crackly excitement of Tarantino's other efforts, mainly because he can't seem to tie the whole package together.

| Aug 23, 2014

Inglourious Basterds is naughty, apocalyptic fun -- Tarantino's version of a war movie, with history rewritten to avenge the guilty in ways that satisfy his pop-art cinephilia.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2014

Waltz will be unknown to most American audiences -- he was certainly unknown to me -- but he's nothing less than sensational as the silky, polyglot SS officer charged by the Fuhrer to root out the remaining Jews in France.

| Aug 4, 2013

Tarantino has now settled into an idiosyncratic groove that puts off more people than it attracts, and it's doubtful Inglourious Basterds will redress the imbalance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

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

| Original Score: A | May 6, 2011

Dialogue is sharp, the imagery mesmerizing and both come together to create a wildly entertaining film. Impossible to watch without wanting to be a Basterd yourself.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 14, 2010

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

| Dec 16, 2009

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.

| Sep 10, 2009

QT has let loose completely: flashes of cine-genius curdle with crude, crazy juvenility, although it doesn't stop this being his most purely enjoyable film since Kill Bill: Vol. 1.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2009

I need to learn if this is indeed the spectacularly engaging mess I want to say it is or just a plain old mess with spectacular moments, the difference between the two so razor-thin a follicle of hair might actually be thicker.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 21, 2009

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.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 21, 2009

Will Basterds polarize audiences? That's a given. But for anyone professing true movie love, there's no resisting it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 21, 2009