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Avg. Critic Score: 69 out of 100 Generally favorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
17 not for kids
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    Delivered with such high panache and brio, it's mesmerizing. Read full review

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Kill Bill: Volume 1 shows Quentin Tarantino so effortlessly and brilliantly in command of his technique that he reminds me of a virtuoso violinist racing through "Flight of the Bumble Bee" -- or maybe an accordion prodigy setting a speed record for "Lady of Spain." Read full review

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    The film may be bloody, but it's also bloody gorgeous: a grandly fetishized epic of cinematic aggression. It's a tale of vengeance that hinges on Tarantino's love of ferocity as spectacle -- his immersion in action and exploitation, his addiction to the jazzy catharsis of junk-film kicks. Read full review

  • 88
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    In Kill Bill, Tarantino brings delicious sin back to movies -- the thrill you get from something down, dirty and dangerous. Read full review

  • 88
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    Bill re-establishes that Tarantino ranks with "Boogie Nights'" Paul Thomas Anderson as one of the few Hollywood filmmakers of the past 25 years with the stuff to win a lifetime achievement award. Read full review

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    Is Kill Bill a homage to great Asian action movies? Yes. Is Tarantino trying to outdo his cherished masters (on a budget that dwarfs their films)? Of course. Is there any other point of any of this? Let's see "Vol. 2." Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    Mr. Tarantino is an irrepressible showoff, recklessly flaunting his formal skills as a choreographer of high-concept violence, but he is also an unabashed cinephile, and the sincerity of his enthusiasm gives this messy, uneven spectacle an odd, feverish integrity. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Manohla Dargis

    The movie love can make it hard to hear the human pulse beneath the noise (it's there, if faint), much less see if there's anything new going on. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    A strange, fun and densely textured work that gets better as it goes along. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    It boggles the mind that after six years of silence, all Tarantino has to offer is this garbage. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says not for kids Visually striking, but also very violent.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that they should exercise the strongest caution before allowing their kids to see this film. They should know that the movie has the most intense, graphic, brutal, and destructive violence imaginable (at least until Tarantino thinks up something new). Body parts are sliced off and blood gushes and spurts like a geyser. Many characters are maimed and many more are killed. A mother is murdered in front of her young child. A man's head is sliced off and tossed around. A character is repeatedly raped while she is unconscious. Characters drink and smoke and use very strong language.
  • Families can talk about the sources of inspiration Tarantino drew from.
The good stuff
  • rolemodels true0 Positive role models: The main character is a powerful woman, but her every action is driven by revenge.
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Constant, extreme graphic violence with gallons of spurting blood, characters maimed and killed. Nightmare material.
  • sex false5 Sex: A character is repeatedly raped while she is unconscious.
  • language false5 Language: Exceptionally strong language.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking and smoking.
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