Entertainment Weekly "...It's a tale of vengeance that hinges on Tarantino's love of ferocity as spectacle..." 10/17/2003 p.57-8Total Film "...Quite brilliant....It's all here: the sudden shifts of tone, the flip-flopping time structure, the supercool slo-mo, the exquisite humour, the pitch-perfect performances and, of course, the trademark dialogue..." 11/01/2003 p.88-9 Rolling Stone "...In KILL BILL, Tarantino brings delicious sin back to movies -- the thrill you get from something down, dirty and dangerous..." 10/30/2003 p.99 New York Times "...There are some strong and diverse flavors, as well as vivid colors in the mix, all of them deftly reflected in the hip-hop artist RZA's clever, eclectic score..." 10/10/2003 p.E1 USA Today "...Tarantino can glean excitement out of someone walking across a room....And he's funny..." 10/10/2003 p.1E Los Angeles Times "...The ultimate film-geek freakout, a compendium of 1960s and 1970s cine-references..." 10/10/2003 p.C1 Variety "...A strange, fun and densely textured work that gets better as it goes along..." 09/29/2003 p.56-64 Sight and Sound "...This is a down-and-dirty kung fu picture..." 12/01/2003 p.40-2 Film Comment "A new wrinkle on pastiche -- the first bona fide mainstream mix movie, and long live the director as DJ." 01/01/2004 p.45 Empire 4 stars out of 5 -- "KILL BILL offers many glimpses of Tarantino's maverick genius..." 01/01/2008 p.194 |