Django Unchained

The Observer“Places Tarantino among the most impressive film-makers at work today...” Not only is Tarantino's first western, Django Unchained, a brilliant revival of the genre, it's an admiring and adroit harnessing of the spaghetti western to his own aims and purposes...

The Arts Desk“As leisurely paced as Westerns of old...” Is there one ending too many? Sure. Did Tarantino really have to appear in it himself - complete with a terrible Australian accent? Hell no. Yet these are minor quibbles, for here we have 2013's first must-see...

Evening Standard“In Django Unchained, Tarantino has outdone even himself in pure sauce...” The deal with Quentin Tarantino is simple and outrageous. His heroes have suffered such historic injustice that their revenge can never be too bloody or cruel...

The Independent“Tarantino can do many things, but editing is not his forte...” Tarantino's knowledge of movies is prodigious in its breadth. He would probably be the best team-mate you could ever have on a movie pub-quiz. But that may also be the reason why his films feel so narrow...

The Telegraph“A dark, bubbling alchemy of art and junk...” Deliciously indulgent pulp odyssey, energised by the power of escape and refracted through the pleasures of escapism. It nods at the spare, brutal spaghetti Westerns made in Europe by those two great Sergios, Leone and Corbucci ...

Little White Lies“A funny, violent, very entertaining crowdpleaser...” Rewinding to the Deep South of the 1850s means that, for the first time since his colour-coded debut Reservoir Dogs, this is a Tarantino film set in a man’s world. Instead of foot fetishism and avenging angels, we have Jamie Foxx’s scarred slave.

Empire“Any new Quentin Tarantino release is an event...” Another strong, sparky and bloody entry in the QT canon. Although, creaking under its running time, it’s not quite as uproariously entertaining as his last pseudo-historical adventure, Inglourious Basterds...

Total Film “A postmodern Franken-western...” Tarantino's three-hour feast of Southern-fried trash cinema might be too much – and too bloody – for certain constitutions, but the rewards are plentiful. Be sure to hunt it down...

Time Out film“A blazing return to form...” This is a meaty spaghetti western, heavy on the spicy sauce and ketchup and peppered with the sort of unforgettable touches only Tarantino could get away with...

Guardian“I can't wait to see this again...” Wildly exciting return to form:a thrilling adventure in genre and style climaxing in a bizarre and nightmarish scenario in a slave plantation in 1858.The movie is managed with Tarantino's superb provocation and audacity, with a whiplash of cruelty...