DVD & Blu-ray review: Django Unchained (18)

Quentin Tarantino, DVD/Blu-ray (165mins)

Ben Walsh
Thursday 16 May 2013 13:54 EDT
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Christoph Waltz (left) bagged the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Django Unchained
Christoph Waltz (left) bagged the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Django Unchained

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“His name is Django, he's a free man, and he can ride what he pleases...” Tarantino, like Spielberg and Billy Wilder before him, is in the business of entertainment and this lurid, frequently funny pre-Civil War Western is wildly entertaining. Christoph Waltz bagged the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, but he's a leading man as the empathetic bounty hunter Dr King Schultz.

The physician, after slaying a trio of infamous murderers, sets about helping freed slave Django (Jamie Foxx) liberate his enslaved wife (Kerry Washington) from Leonardo DiCaprio's sadistic plantation owner. Stirring cinema from a singular talent.

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