Storyline
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
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Michael Bowen, Jonah Hill, Jamie Foxx, Edrick Browne, Zoë Bell, Christoph Waltz, Michael Bacall, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Garber, Quentin Tarantino, Catherine Lambert, David Steen, James Remar, Leonardo DiCaprio, Amber Tamblyn, Ned Bellamy, Laura Cayouette, Bruce Dern, Rex Linn, M.C. Gainey, Erin Pickett, Walton Goggins, Gary Grubbs, Franco Nero, Mark Amos, Omar J. Dorsey, Ritchie Montgomery, Jamal Duff, John McConnell, Dane Rhodes, John Jarratt, Russ Tamblyn, Victoria Thomas, Sammi Rotibi, Ato Essandoh, Tom Savini, James Russo, Mark Ulano, Kerry Washington, Michael Parks, Kim Robillard, James Parks, Louise Stratten, J.D. Evermore, Don Johnson, Jacquelyn Twodat Jackson, Christopher Berry, Brian Brown, Glen Warner, Jon Eyez, Evan Parke, Elton LeBlanc, Robert Carradine, Tom Wopat, Nichole Galicia, Dennis Christopher, Dana Gourrier, Clay Donahue Fontenot, Escalante Lundy, Miriam F. Glover, Don Stroud, Cooper Huckabee, Doc Duhame, Lee Horsley, Ted Neeley, Amari Cheatom, Keith Jefferson, Marcus Henderson, Lil Chuuch, Kinetic, Shana Stein, Shannon Hazlett, Jack Lucarelli, Grace Collins, Sharon Pierre-Louis, Kim Collins, Ronan Hice, Dave Coennen, Danièle Watts, Craig Stark, Nicholas Dashnaw, Jarrod Bunch, Kerry Sims, Todd Allen, Lewis Smith, Keniaryn Mitchell, Jakel Marshall, Carl Singleton, Ashley Toman, Monica Rene'e Anderson, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Deborah Ayorinde, Takara Clark, Kimberley Drummond, Tenaj L. Jackson, Carl Bailey, Ross P. Cook, Gregory Allen Gabroy, Gene Kevin Hames Jr., Seth Bailey, David G. Baker, Richie J. Ladner, Kesha Bullard, Edward J. Clare, Jordon Michael Corbin, Mike DeMille, Santana Draper, Justin Hall, Sandra Linz, Kasey James, Skipper Landry, Cindy Mah, Johnny Otto, Belinda Owino, Misty Upham
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Reviews
100
Boxoffice Magazine
A sharp shock of a film in an Awards season very full of movies so noble they become immobile. It's wildly unlikely to get much love from the Academy, and that's fine-bluntly, it's too good for them. With its bloody stew of history and hysteria, action taken from movies and atrocities taken from fact, Django isn't just a movie only America could make-it's also a movie only America needs to.
100
An immensely satisfying taste of antebellum empowerment packaged as spaghetti-Western homage... A bloody hilarious (and hilariously bloody) Christmas counter-programmer.
100
Django Unchained also has the pure, almost meaningless excitement which I found sorely lacking in Tarantino's previous film, Inglourious Basterds, with its misfiring spaghetti-Nazi trope and boring plot. 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.
80
Only Tarantino could come up with such a wild cross-cultural mash, a smorgasbord of ingredients stemming from spaghetti Westerns, German legend, historical slavery, modern rap music, proto-Ku Klux Klan fashion, an assembly of '60s and '70s character actors and a leading couple meant to be the distant forebears of blaxploitation hero John Shaft and make it not only digestible but actually pretty delicious.
80
Vibrating with the geekery of a filmmaker off the chain, the movie plays like no other this year. Tarantino, steeped in even the smallest Leonean gesture (what's with the weird terrain shifts?), knows how to satisfy fans of scuzzy Italian horse operas and badass superviolence in equal measure.
