Django Unchained
Academy Award × 2
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With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
What critics thought
Broadly celebrated as a typically fearless Tarantino provocation, Django Unchained won most critics over with its propulsive energy and willingness to confront slavery through the lens of genre spectacle — but a vocal minority argued it was bloated, structurally loose, and inferior to Inglourious Basterds. The central performance of Jamie Foxx was itself a point of division, with some finding him compelling and others seeing him as the film's weakest element.
“Like Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained is crazily entertaining, brazenly irresponsible and also ethically serious in a way that is entirely consistent with its playfulness.”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
“I can only say Django delivers, wholesale, that particular narcotic and delirious pleasure that Tarantino still knows how to confect in the cinema, something to do with the manipulation of surfaces. It's as unwholesome, deplorable and delicious as a forbidden cigarette.”
Peter Bradshaw·The Guardian
“Django isn't nearly the film that Inglourious was. It's less clever, and it doesn't have enough major characters – or enough of Tarantino's trademark structural ingenuity – to earn its two-hour-and-45-minute running time.”
Owen Gleiberman·Entertainment Weekly
“plays [the role of Candie] to hateful perfection: a spiteful, brown-toothed bully, avaricious, vain and prone to flattery”
Dan Jolin·Empire
“Django Unchained shows signs that Tarantino did little research beyond repeated viewings of Sergio Corbucci's 1966 spaghetti Western Django and a blaxploitation from 1975 called Boss Nigger, written by and starring Fred Williamson.”
David Fellerath·Indy Week
Genres
Drama, Western
Cast & Crew
DirectorQuentin Tarantino
StarringJamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson
Django Unchained
Academy Award × 2
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
What critics thought
Broadly celebrated as a typically fearless Tarantino provocation, Django Unchained won most critics over with its propulsive energy and willingness to confront slavery through the lens of genre spectacle — but a vocal minority argued it was bloated, structurally loose, and inferior to Inglourious Basterds. The central performance of Jamie Foxx was itself a point of division, with some finding him compelling and others seeing him as the film's weakest element.
“Like Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained is crazily entertaining, brazenly irresponsible and also ethically serious in a way that is entirely consistent with its playfulness.”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
“I can only say Django delivers, wholesale, that particular narcotic and delirious pleasure that Tarantino still knows how to confect in the cinema, something to do with the manipulation of surfaces. It's as unwholesome, deplorable and delicious as a forbidden cigarette.”
Peter Bradshaw·The Guardian
“Django isn't nearly the film that Inglourious was. It's less clever, and it doesn't have enough major characters – or enough of Tarantino's trademark structural ingenuity – to earn its two-hour-and-45-minute running time.”
Owen Gleiberman·Entertainment Weekly
“plays [the role of Candie] to hateful perfection: a spiteful, brown-toothed bully, avaricious, vain and prone to flattery”
Dan Jolin·Empire
“Django Unchained shows signs that Tarantino did little research beyond repeated viewings of Sergio Corbucci's 1966 spaghetti Western Django and a blaxploitation from 1975 called Boss Nigger, written by and starring Fred Williamson.”
David Fellerath·Indy Week
Genres
Drama, Western
Cast & Crew
DirectorQuentin Tarantino
StarringJamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson
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