Django Unchained (2012)

I must confess that, like Spike Lee, I prejudged Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. However, my reservations stemmed not from any debate over ownership of the story Tarantino ventures to tell but from the opening credits. Titles in a spaghetti western typeface display on the screen as Luis Enrique Bacalov's theme song from Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 Italian Western Django plays. I feared these were signs of Tarantino's notorious pedantry that would result in an unemotional exercise in pastiche. Read the rest of the review here.