Inglourious Basterds

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    Inglourious Basterds
    2009

    Synopsis

    In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

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    Cast

    • Brad PittFirst Lieutenant Aldo "The Apache" Raine
    • Mélanie LaurentShosanna Dreyfus / Emmanuelle Mimieux
    • Christoph WaltzSS Colonel Hans "The Jew Hunter" Landa
    • Eli RothStaff Sergeant Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz
    • Michael FassbenderLieutenant Archie Hicox
    • Diane KrugerBridget von Hammersmark
    • Daniel BrühlPrivate First Class Fredrick Zoller
    • Til SchweigerSergeant Hugo Stiglitz
    • Gedeon BurkhardCorporal Wilhelm Wicki
    • Jacky IdoMarcel

    Recommendations

    • 100

      ReelViews

      With Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino has made his best movie since "Pulp Fiction." He has also made what could arguably be considered the most audacious World War II movie of all-time.
    • 90

      Village Voice

      Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment--rich in fantasy and blithely amoral.
    • 88

      St. Louis Post-Dispatch

      With its exploded notions of heroism, torture-rack dramatics and kamikaze gusto, it's a fiendishly entertaining flick.
    • 80

      Variety

      A violent fairy tale, an increasingly entertaining fantasia in which the history of World War II is wildly reimagined so that the cinema can play the decisive role in destroying the Third Reich.
    • 80

      Empire

      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.
    • 80

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      Even more than his other genre mash-ups, this is a switchback journey through Tarantino’s twisted inner landscape, where cinema and history, misogyny and feminism, sadism and romanticism collide and split and re-bond in bizarre new hybrids. The movie is an ungainly pastiche, yet on some wacked-out Jungian level it’s all of a piece.
    • 75

      Entertainment Weekly

      In Tarantino's besotted historical reverie, real-life villains Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels are played as grotesque jokes. The Basterds are played as exaggeratedly tough Jews. The women are femmes fatales.?
    • 70

      Film Threat

      The biggest, weirdest, ugliest cartoon in Inglourious Basterds is Aldo Raine, the Nazi-killing American Lieutenant played by Brad Pitt.

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