Both films combined gift Uma Thurman the role of her career and, for the first film, she received BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress...she was not recognized by the Academy, which is absurd, in retrospect.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 27, 2025

The results of this initial entry are bloody cinematic joy.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 22, 2025

While not the meatiest out of Quentin Tarantino’s movies, Kill Bill Vol.1 shows simplicity can be a merit when supported by highly memorable style.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 6, 2025

A wild, eclectic action movie with visual flair, great performances and personality up the wazoo.

| Jun 5, 2023

A sensationally bloody revenge yarn full of cinematic wizardry and driven by a filmmaker’s insatiable appetite for the movies he grew up with.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 22, 2022

It’s a stained glass window of a movie — you only know so much, but everything you need is draped over and around you in shimmering light (and, for this film, fountains of blood).

| Jun 23, 2022

The violent set-pieces and bloodshed take more of a "Mr. Orange" backseat - but equally bloody - ride in The Bride's second outing as Tarantino doubles down on what he does best: emphasising everything that makes his larger than life characters tick.

| Jun 10, 2021

For a film that is ultimately just the first piece to a much larger narrative, it does not disappoint.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 9, 2020

Tarantino surpasses expectations with this stylish and exciting love letter to other classic genres, while leaving his own bloody mark on them. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 29, 2020

A gleefully ultraviolent homage to the B-movie martial arts films of the 1970s. It's pure bloody pulp fiction packed into a tightly wound feature.

| Nov 15, 2019

The better of the two Kill Bill films, and perhaps the last film where Tarantino created a tight, tense and disciplined exercise in film narrative.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2019

Here was a filmmaker who could have easily stayed in his comfort zone of smart-alecky banter between dudes but instead chose to pare down his dialogue and flex his visual storytelling muscles.

| Jul 30, 2019

Watching Tarantino's films-and none more than Kill Bill-is like being stuck in a room with someone who, like so many of this director's characters, can't stop talking about the really neat parts in the movies he's seen.

| Aug 20, 2018

... Kill Bill confirms [Quentin Tarantino] as a filmmaker of astonishing invention and aplomb...

| Mar 22, 2018

There's nothing like a good 'ole revenge heist (complete with a hit list) to make this film one of Tarantino's best.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 12, 2017

The tale is pure pulp, a catalogue of seventies martial arts revenge dramas and American B-movie action thrillers, and the style is pure Tarantino...

| Jul 29, 2016

delivers on every classic Tarantino brand that you'd come to expect

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 12, 2016

Visually striking, but also very violent.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 24, 2010

A head-spinning dream project of extraordinarily bi-polar, nutso invention, Vol. 1 is a candy store rampage, cheering on Tarantino's fetishes as he built a colorful war machine of ideal double-feature dementia.

| Original Score: A | Dec 28, 2009

Quentin Tarantino's long awaited fourth film finds the pop culture carnivore of filmmaking reinvigorating cinema a second time over with a single-plot-trajectory revenge movie that utilizes samurai sword action with a shifting score of infectious guitar d

| Original Score: A- | Apr 19, 2009