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51 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawTarantino has created another breathtakingly stylish and clever film, a Jacobean western, intimate yet somehow weirdly colossal, once again releasing his own kind of unwholesome crazy-funny-violent nitrous oxide into the cinema auditorium for us all to inhale.
- 90VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeThe movie absolutely delivers on the sheer moment-to-moment pleasures fans have come to expect, from dynamite dialogue to powder-keg confrontations.
- 90ScreenCrushMatt SingerScreenCrushMatt SingerThose willing to put in the time will find a movie that is both beautiful and hideous, funny and shocking, and even thoughtful on occasion.
- 90Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlThe film's chatty, ingratiating, and then howlingly mean.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThere 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, nor as to who staged the ongoing bloodbath that becomes a gusher in the final stretch.
- 80Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonThe Hateful Eight’s impact expands and grows richer the further away you are from the experience of watching it.
- 75TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeThe 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.
- 75Slant MagazineJaime N. ChristleySlant MagazineJaime N. ChristleyThe premise of the film is simple, but it's a simplicity that can only attract complications, as simple plans are apt to do, in an atmosphere of foreboding and the macabre.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyEntertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyThe Hateful Eight doesn’t have enough ideas. Set almost entirely in a snowed-in saloon, the story’s so spare it doesn’t warrant either its three-hour running time (including an overture and intermission) or his use of 70mm projection. It’s narratively and visually claustrophobic.