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The Hateful Eight

2015

Quentin Tarantino

Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins ...

7.3

64,963

Western. Mystery In THE HATEFUL EIGHT, set or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Jackson), a black former union ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Quentin Tarantino's most beautiful, riveting and intimate movie so far (...) a superb Ennio Morricone score (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"An uncompromising epic that's pure Tarantino. (...) With its minimalist setting and vivid themes, 'The Hateful Eight' suggests 'Reservoir Dogs' set in the world of 'Django Unchained'."
		Peter Debruge Variety	"The movie absolutely delivers on the sheer moment-to-moment pleasures fans have come to expect, from dynamite dialogue to powder-keg confrontations."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Agatha Christie with gags, guns and Samuel L Jackson. (...) A three-hour masterpiece (...) Tarantino has created another breathtakingly stylish and clever film (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)
		Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"The Hateful Eight doesn't have enough ideas (...) It's narratively and visually claustrophobic. Fortunately, the director's genius for casting hasn't abandoned him."
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"While it’s not as audacious or as provocative or as brutally violent as 'Django Unchained,' it’s still an exhilarating moviegoing experience (...) One of the best movies of the year (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"
		Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"The Hateful Eight never lives up to its intriguing opening minutes and provocative premise, its wide-screen canvas wasted on a talky, claustrophobic chamber piece"
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"A slow-burn, meditative chamber piece that only gradually reveals its grander, bloodier ambitions (...) 'The Hateful Eight’s' impact expands and grows richer the further away you are from the experience of watching it."
		Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"What the film does offer is brilliant writing and some wonderfully eccentric and lively performances (...) the film manages to deal in surprisingly trenchant fashion with racial politics in post Civil War America. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"No one's better at raising hell at the movies than Quentin Tarantino (...) Even if you think The Hateful Eight is something swung at and missed, you never doubt the cunning and commitment of the wiz behind the curtain (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"
		Lou Lumenick New York Post	"'The Hateful Eight' is basically an expensive vanity project allowing Tarantino to expound on his bizarre theories about race relations (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)"
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"There is absolutely no doubt about who wrote the elaborate, pungent, profane and often funny dialogue that a fine cast chews over and spits out with evident glee."
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Some of the film's ugliness is therefore a sign of integrity, and of relevance. But much of it seems dumb and ill considered, as if Mr. Tarantino's intellectual ambition and his storytelling discipline had failed him at the same time."
		Alan Scherstuhl Village Voice	"A intimate, suspenseful western (...) This isn't Django II. It has a traditional play's pacing and structure (...) Jackson and Russell dominate the picture (...) Eventually, Leigh, seizes The Hateful Eight and makes it her own."
		Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"'The Hateful Eight' owes less to Sergio Leone than it does to Agatha Christie. (...) “The Hateful Eight” may frustrate some of his more literally sanguine supporters, but it's nonetheless an entertaining piece of dialogue-driven theater — with the occasional rifle-shot to the head."

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