A stylish and fun genre throwback that honors the films of the past while crafting a rip-roaring new experience with a gritty and clever verve.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 7, 2019

Everything in "Sukiyaki Western Django" has been said before...

| Mar 8, 2018

Pastiche rides the high frontier in "Sukiyaki Western Django", a film that strips the "Kill Bill" model of genre spoof down just to referents, quotes, and iconography, leaving strewn along its path the wreckage a blunt critic might call "the point."

| Nov 17, 2017

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

The gimmicky gore fest quickly fell out of favor with me.

| Original Score: C | Feb 17, 2011

Ultimately not quite as clever as it thinks it is. Even the action sequences are more about Foley than choreography, and so the film largely rests on the oddity of its mix of styles and its parade of genre in-jokes

| Aug 8, 2009

Molonoti agono thematika, alla kai aisthitika se megalo bathmo, to ekstremistiko kinimatografiko homage toy Takashi Miike, poy ston aksona toy Yojimbo (1961) pantreyei ta spaghetti toy Leone me ta samurai toy Kurosawa, einai ena diabolemena apolaystiko st

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2009

Sukiyaki Western Django is a singular work of art that both celebrates those disjointed parts and synthesizes them into a strangely cohesive %u2013 and more amazingly, unique whole.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 20, 2008

Although something of a confusing and befuddling mess, Miike's foray into the Western genre, Sukiyaki Western Django is another showcase for his playful and often gory style.

| Nov 12, 2008

...everything that was supposed to enliven the picture perfect images just seemed to drag them down with lame dialogue and clichéd action.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 12, 2008

... for all its virtues, Sukiyaki Western Django is a one-gimmick film that eventually wears out its welcome.

Full Review | Nov 12, 2008

Clever costuming and production design set off an intriguingly off-kilter vision of a tiny western town in a "Nevada" out in the Japanese desert.

| Original Score: B | Nov 10, 2008

Miike knows how to film cartoonish violence with style, and the sillier the movie becomes in its mayhem, the harder it is to turn away from.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 18, 2008

As much of a hoot as the movie is, it feels like just an exercise well before it ends.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 3, 2008

Director Takashi Miike's dish of sukiyaki spaghetti ala Sergio Corbucci is badly seasoned with scraps of reservoir dogs.

| Original Score: C | Oct 2, 2008

Sukiyaki Western Django is Takashi Miike's frantic swirl of a spaghetti western, marrying eastern and western elements in what could be taken as either homage or parody -- or both.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 19, 2008

The chaotic elements never really coalesce into a sensible whole beyond the idea that this is what, at that moment, Miike thought would be really cool...the film is cluttered and not very fun.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 18, 2008

Japanese spaghetti Western that's both faithful to its Italian antecedents and way out on its own wacky wavelength.

Full Review | Sep 12, 2008