- Studio: Weinstein Company, The
- Release Date: Dec 25, 2012
- Starring: Christoph Waltz, Don Johnson, Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson
- Summary:
- Director: Quentin Tarantino
- Genre(s): Action, Drama, Western
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 36 out of 41
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Mixed: 5 out of 41
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Negative: 0 out of 41
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100What Tarantino has is an appreciation for gut-level exploitation film appeal, combined with an artist's desire to transform that gut element with something higher, better, more daring. His films challenge taboos in our society in the most direct possible way, and at the same time add an element of parody or satire.
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100The film doesn't play it safe, so neither will I. Instead, I'll say that it finds Mr. Tarantino perched improbably but securely on the top of a production that's wildly extravagant, ferociously violent, ludicrously lurid and outrageously entertaining, yet also, remarkably, very much about the pernicious lunacy of racism and, yes, slavery's singular horrors.
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60The film also comes across like a rough cut that was never looked at as a coherent whole, and some segments that start off as promising become interminable while others feel entirely unnecessary. There's no pressure on or expectation for Tarantino to please anyone other than himself, and the film feels overstuffed with ideas that should have been pruned.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 95 out of 122
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Mixed: 10 out of 122
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Negative: 17 out of 122
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