The Hateful Eight may really be sort of terrible.

| Sep 28, 2017

While it's not his best film (it's far too long and indulgent at times), Tarantino absorbs the audience into a scene, compelling you to look at each and every inch of it--indicative of many vintage films (his usual film playground).

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 1, 2017

The Hateful Eight often feels more like a sadistic stage play than a movie. [Full review in Japanese]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 19, 2016

The Hateful Eight has lots to love, but just as much to abhor, making it an elegant enigma that's as frustrating as it is impressive.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 16, 2016

Some of Tarantino's worst instincts are on display in The Hateful Eight, which -- damnit! -- could've been so great.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 12, 2016

A gloriously unhinged, wildly unpredictable, yet subtly existential piece of work.

| Apr 27, 2016

It's fascinating to watch -- not once was I bored -- and superior to most other offerings on the big screen at the moment.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 9, 2016

It's surely the bleakest film of Tarantino's career, pronouncing a bitter verdict not only on America's past, but its present and future as well.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 22, 2016

A deeply conflicting version of fun.

Full Review | Jan 22, 2016

It's everything you'd expect from this exasperatingly unruly writer-director: cinematically adventurous, generically self-conscious, entertainingly performed, editorially ill-disciplined.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 10, 2016

Nobody does what Tarantino does, and that alone, in a world of copycats and sequels and rip-offs, makes him priceless.

| Jan 8, 2016

"Hateful" isn't the word I would use. Wasteful sounds right - of our time and Tarantino's talents.

| Jan 8, 2016

It's mannered, grandiose and self-indulgent, but in its own way absolutely expert. Aesthetic, even, if you like that.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2016

As much as it wallows in the worst mankind has to offer (and has little of importance to say about those impulses), it still showcases Tarantino's skills with memorable characters and high-impact dialogue.

| Jan 7, 2016

Tarantino. Unarguably a gifted filmmaker. Probably why no one said "enough."

| Original Score: 2.00 | Jan 7, 2016

What a shame the piece is so lacking in character and narrative coherence. What a shame so much of it is so gosh-darn boring.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 7, 2016

As the pieces slot quickly into place, the investment you made in these people and their predicaments begins to pay off, big time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 7, 2016

Tarantino has returned to his first film's template - colourful characters, a single room, blood and betrayal - but this time in a framework that is deliberately designed for repeat viewing.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 7, 2016

Playing a gun-control parlor game for 90 minutes without letting a single bullet loose is an intense and bravura direction to take for a Western, that most American genre where the 2nd Amendment rings loudest.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 6, 2016

Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight is a lot of things. Boring, of course, isn't one of them.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 4, 2016