It is, without question, Tarantino’s most mature work. It is also his most fun.

And it rewrites history. Literally.

He asks the farmer hiding a family under his floorboards: "Are you hiding refugees underneath my nose?"

Inglourious Basterds is messy, indulgent, too long, and utterly glorious. It is a film that believes in the power of cinema so deeply that it lets a movie theater end a war. It understands that sometimes the only satisfying answer to evil is a baseball bat to the skull—and sometimes it's a French girl weeping while watching her Nazi enemies burn.