Inglourious Basterds
Weinstein Company, The | Release Date: August 21, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
Positive:
26
Mixed:
9
Negative:
1
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60
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
The film is by no means terrible -- its two hours and 32 minutes running time races by -- but those things we think of as being Tarantino-esque, the long stretches of wickedly funny dialogue, the humor in the violence and outsized characters strutting across the screen, are largely missing. Read full review
60
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Unwieldy, long-winded, self-indulgently nutso and, in places, very, very boring. It also caps off its two-and-a-half-hour run time with an extended finale – partially orchestrated to David Bowie's "Cat People" theme song, no less – that I could watch again and again with pleasure Read full review
50
The New YorkerDavid Denby
Inglourious Basterds is not boring, but it’s ridiculous and appallingly insensitive. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Less a Holocaust retribution fantasy than a messy homage to war movies, and to movies, period. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
Let's start with this certainty: No one but Quentin Tarantino could possibly have made Inglourious Basterds . Now add another: No one but his most ardent fans will be entirely glad that Quentin Tarantino did make Inglourious Basterds . Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
Clocking in at 2 hours and 32 minutes, it is unforgivably leisurely, almost glacial, a film that loses its way in the thickets of alternative history and manages to be violent without the start-to-finish energy that violence on screen usually guarantees. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoanne Kaufman
Nothing about the emotionally unmoored Inglourious Basterds adds up. Whether it's parody, farce or a fever dream is anyone's guess. Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Mostly, though, there is Landa, whose unctuous charm, beautifully modulated by Mr. Waltz, gives this unwieldy, dragging movie a much-needed periodic jolt. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
Isn't about history or war, or people and their problems, or anything of substance or meaning. It's a movie about other movies. For all its visual bravura and occasional bursts of antic inspiration, it feels trivial, the work of a kid who can't stop grabbing his favorite shiny plaything. Read full review
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