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Weekend Film Reviews

Django Unchained

The safest thing you could say about "Django Unchained" is that it finds Quentin Tarantino hurtling over the top yet again...

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By Joe Morgenstern • Dec 29, 2012 • 3m Listen

Django Unchained finds Quentin Tarantino perched improbably but securely on the top of a production that's wildly extravagant, ferociously violent, ludicrously lurid and outrageously entertaining, yet also, remarkable, very much about the lunacy of racism and slavery's horrors.

Banner image: (L-R) Christoph Waltz and Jamie Foxx in Django Unchained

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    Joe Morgenstern

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