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- 2009
- R
- Weinstein Company, The
- 2 h 33 m
- 2009
- R
- Weinstein Company, The
- 2 h 33 m
Summary In the first year of the German occupation of France, Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe, lieutenant Aldo Raine organizes a group of Jewish Ame...
Directed By: Quentin Tarantino
Written By: Quentin Tarantino
- 2009
- R
- Weinstein Company, The
- 2 h 33 m
- 2009
- R
- Weinstein Company, The
- 2 h 33 m
Inglourious Basterds
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Summary In the first year of the German occupation of France, Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe, lieutenant Aldo Raine organizes a group of Jewish Ame...
Directed By: Quentin Tarantino
Written By: Quentin Tarantino
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 36 Critic Reviews
69
72% Positive
26 Reviews
26 Reviews
25% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 36 Critic Reviews
69
72% Positive
26 Reviews
26 Reviews
25% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
It's not enough to say that Inglourious Basterds is Quentin Tarantino's best movie. It's the first movie of his artistic maturity, the film his talent has been promising for more than 15 years.
Tarantino exercises both his obsession with vengeance and his fascination with the movies.
User Score
Universal Acclaim Based on 1,535 User Ratings
8.3
89% Positive
1373 Ratings
1373 Ratings
6% Mixed
93 Ratings
93 Ratings
4% Negative
69 Ratings
69 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim Based on 1,535 User Ratings
8.3
89% Positive
1373 Ratings
1373 Ratings
6% Mixed
93 Ratings
93 Ratings
4% Negative
69 Ratings
69 Ratings
Nov 1, 2025
First of all, I loved the direction, cinematography, and editing. Christoph Waltz, as Hans Landa, gives an incredible performance; He steals every scene and is easily one of the best villains I’ve seen in any film. The dialogues are very well written. Tarantino’s direction and camera work make every shot look amazing and give the film a distinct cinematic feel. Some scenes are exceptionally well shot and directed. For example, the “Jew-hunting” sequence, the basement climax, and others. At times, the story feels a bit uneven, but it doesn’t spoil the fun. Overall, Inglourious Basterds is a movie I’d recommend to anyone who loves thrilling stories and strong characters.
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Jun 28, 2025
Honestly, perhaps my favorite film of all time, the cinematography in this is FANTASTIC, this film has such beautiful takes that they could easily go down in cinema history, Hans Landa is one of the best villains I've ever seen, the tension when this guy enters the scene is absurd, the viscerality and raw nature of this film is impeccable.
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With a confidence typical of its director, the last line of Inglourious Basterds is, "This might just be my masterpiece." While that may not be true, this is an often dazzling movie that sees QT back on exhilarating form.
Tarantino has already caught some flack for daring to use the Holocaust as material for another of his bloody live-action cartoons, but of course the generation that experienced it for real has mostly faded away. In that sense Inglourious Basterds is a social marker as startling as "Easy Rider" was in its day.
For all its stylistic flourishes and interlocking storylines, Inglourious Basterds is, at its bullet-riddled core, a bloody good war movie, twisting and twisted and full of wordy shrapnel but no less kickass for it.
Mostly, though, there is Landa, whose unctuous charm, beautifully modulated by Mr. Waltz, gives this unwieldy, dragging movie a much-needed periodic jolt.
The only hope for Inglourious Basterds is that audiences will embrace it the way the Broadway crowd did "Springtime for Hitler": because it's so bad they think it's good.
Jan 8, 2025
I most certainly enjoyed it as it was an absolute nut case of a film with a lot of unrestrained strings attached with all the violence but also adding a lot of specialties to the table.
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Jul 31, 2019
I`m one of the people who did not get the memo that we all should praise this movie to high heavens because its Tarantino's baby.
I like his previous movies, a lot in fact. Pulp Fiction is one of my favorite movies of all time. But I dont get Inglorious Basterds at all. Tarantino drags the story through painfully long and pretentious dialogue that is not funny or interesting. It sometimes works in his movies, this time it doesn't. Its not a war movie, its not a comedy, nor a thriller. Its just... Tarantino. It has its moments but unlike most of his movies this one is easily forgettable.
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Production Company
- Universal Pictures
- The Weinstein Company
- A Band Apart
- Studio Babelsberg
- Visiona Romantica
Release Date Aug 21, 2009
Duration 2 h 33 m
Rating R
Tagline Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France...
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 8 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Golden Schmoes Awards
• 6 Wins & 18 Nominations
