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The Hateful Eight

2015 Directed by Quentin Tarantino

No one comes up here without a damn good reason.

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

Samuel L. Jackson Kurt Russell Jennifer Jason Leigh Walton Goggins Demián Bichir Tim Roth Michael Madsen Bruce Dern James Parks Dana Gourrier Zoë Bell Lee Horsley Gene Jones Keith Jefferson Craig Stark Belinda Owino Channing Tatum Quentin Tarantino

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Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 32

100/100

I wasn’t prepared for this. Obviously, I went into The Hateful Eight with the same expectations as I do with every newly-minted Tarantino flick. I wanted snappy dialogue, grand moments of violence, and masterful sequences of flourishing character, and I got all of that, for sure. However, I didn’t expect to walk out of the theater with a stupid grin on my face, barely able to walk because of the rampaging poignancy and blazing hatred woven through every frame. Going even further, I also wasn’t ready to ponder the question of whether The Hateful Eight was legitimately my new ‘favorite film’.

Yeah, you read that right. Hell, even I was stunned. A new Tarantino? My F-A-V-O-R-I-T-E film? What the…
Review by Todd Gaines ★★★★ 72

It's winter in Wyoming, post-Civil War, USA. A bounty hunter, his $10,000 female bounty, another bounty hunter, a recently elected sheriff, an old war general, a hangman, a silent cowboy, and some fella named Bob all cross paths at Minnie's Haberdashery. Who can be trusted? Where's Minnie? Will it ever stop snowing? It's QT's 8th film about 8 hateful people. Now, who wants a drag from a Red Apple tobacco hand rolled cigarette?

Not only was 2015 the year of the western, but it's the year of the Kurt Russell mustache. My lord! From Bone Tomahawk to The Hateful Eight, Kurt's facial hair is fuckfabulous. You can't help but think of John Carpenter's The Thing. People trapped in the snow.…
Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★½ 11

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

67/100

Let's get the "problematic" (someday I'll be able to use that word without air quotes again) stuff out of the way first:

Is the film misogynistic? Hard to believe anyone who's seen Tarantino's other movies (especially Death Proof) would even entertain that suspicion, and it doesn't hold up in a vacuum, either. One could interpret the ending (and many have) as a statement that misogyny trumps racism, but that observation is arguably feminist, and at the very least productively provocative; there's no indication whatsoever that Tarantino hates women. I'd argue instead that Daisy's gender is pretty close to irrelevant—or, to the extent that it is relevant, it's a nod toward being inclusive/subverting expectations. (And, yes, QT enjoys toying with…
Review by Evan ★★★★½ 17

The deadliest, bloodiest, and most entertaining game of Clue ever played.

Samuel L. Jackson and Walton Goggins were fucking fantastic. All of the performances were GREAT, but those two were the standouts for me.

Quentin Tarantino has once again created an all around well-made film. The writing is great. The dialogue is top-notch. The cast is freaken awesome. The performances are amazing. The action is absolutely brutal. And the visuals are incredible. Wether you like Tarantino's films or not; you can't say he doesn't know what he's doing.

The Hateful Eight is a bloody good time with some very memorable characters.
Review by nathaxnne walker ★★★★★ 21

The Locked-Room-Mystery-Evil-Cabin-Western America not only apparently deserves but supposedly could stand to use. The Hateful Eight is A Horror Movie more than it is anything else. The Morricone Cues from Exorcist II and The Thing as well as the David Hess (!) song from The Last House On The Left are clues enough but the threat here is not Demonic Possession nor Alien Invasion but the Accrued Evil of the United States In Action, with all parties at each others' throats in a scramble to suppress those on the bottom cruelly and violently until an error happens and the tables are turned, for however long, and common cause is made only in violence against another. This is Grand Guignol Home…
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★½ 23

"Youuuu gonnaaaa maaaake aaaa deaaalll
withhh thissss diaaabolicaaalll biiiiiiiiitch!?!"

Hugely visceral & downright disgusting.
Tarantino's best film since the 1990s.
Jennifer Jason Leigh steals the show.
(Honorable mention for Goggins, obviously.)

Recent reviews

Review by Connor Menz ★★★★½

Quentin Tarantino is one of the few men who have mastered the art of directing a film. Three of his original works are in my top 15 favorite films of all time, two of them being in the top 3, but I digress. Tarantino has always been known for his quirky and unique spin on directing and writing, and he has really mastered his own way of approaching film. I have wanted to see this film for quite some time now, and I finally got around to seeing it, and I must say that Quentin has done it again. This film is expertly shot, and expertly written with countless memorable characters to add onto the Tarantino universe. Quentin is known…
Review by Sam Mitchell ★★★★★

Tarantino is wonderful as always.
This is a pure masterpiece on all levels.
If there was ever an equivalent of the "modern-day western" this film would fit the bill for sure.
Review by Samuel Kelly ★★★★

"The Hateful Eight" is a great, fucked up, bloody movie and I highly recommend seeing it in the 70mm Roadshow while you can.

Also:

People who've grown up in eras where it's easy to get into a movie by just wandering down have no concept of scarcity. "What do you mean I can't just wander into the 70mm Road Show edition of 'The Hateful Eight'? It's not on five screens?!"

Just saw a pack of entitled Millennial guys throw a yelling fit because "The Hateful Eight" sold out while they were in line for the tickets. Demanded to see the manager because it wasn't fair and acted like we would support their outrage. "The ticket clerk left his post! We'd have gotten in if it weren't for that!"

*Bill Burr Voice* Eh, you got fucked by the line. It happens, that's life.
Review by avokiddo ★★★½

i really can't stand tarantino so it took me forever to finally sit down and watch this three hour long movie, and.. it was ok! not his best but the asshole can make a good movie, i can't deny it
Review by Andrew Heninger ★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

I didn't mind structure, the narration, the pace, the dialogue, the lack of action, the absence of Christophe Waltz, or even the 3-hr running time. What got to me was the graphic and—l'll say it—gratuitous violence and gore.

At least with “The Walking Dead” I know what to expect (and why), and it’s easy to look away or blink. But this was an assault (on the viewer) for the second half of the movie. Every frame seemed filled with gore, violence, and/of the threat of more. So persistent was this dread and disgust that, for me, it drained the movie of much of the dramatic tension it might have otherwise had.

Now, maybe Christopher Nolan’s completely bloodless mayhem of “The…
Review by syasya ★★★★½

CUT MY LEGS OFF AND CALL ME SHORTY
Review by Ivan Nagar ★★★★

As much of a dickhead Tarantino may be, he can make a good fucking movie
Review by Daniel ★★★★

Now we're almost at the end of our Tarantino journey, and we're looking at his latest movie this time.
His bounty hunter, gang tootin, modern western The Hateful Eight.
This movie is quite long, I think it's his longest yet, and considering that, not too much happens in this movie. It is quite slow and if you're not in it for the haul, well you're not gonna like this too much. Luckily, I'm an avid fan of lengthy movies.
The cast all play their parts very well. The standout for me was one of the more unknown faces, the guy who plays The Sheriff. But Kurt Russell is also really good too.
I feel like this movie also isn't the…
Review by tebita ★★★½

dear quentin tarantino:

could you please stop making films about bounty hunters?

thank you!