Quentin Tarantino’s Movies Ranked: The Definitive Ranking

  A top nine, not a top ten. Whew…that was a close one. That almost sucked. Gosh, I didn't realize how much of Tarantino's filmography I loved before doing this. I'd never watched so much of his stuff in so short a time. Not everything's great, but a whole lot of it is. Death Proof…

The Hateful Eight

#1 in my Ranking of Quentin Tarantino movies. A group of people are stuck in a small place in the middle of a blizzard that keeps them from escaping all while questions of who is actually who they say are abound, but enough about The Thing. Out of all of Tarantino's movies, this is the…

War and Peace (1956)

I hate the argument that if an adaptation of a work is different from the work then the adaptation of the work is a failure as a piece of art. If someone wants to make a Winnie the Pooh adaptation that turns it into a debauched sex comedy, you should measure the work as it…

Django Unchained

#4 in my Ranking of Quentin Tarantino movies. Here's the more focused and emotionally satisfying take on revenge. Where Inglourious Basterds ultimately falters in its final moments, Django Unchained thrives. The former sees a certain disconnect between its disparate acts of vengeance while the latter integrates them really well. A group of slaves is being…

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

I can easily see why Tolstoy would rankle at the idea that his book was a novel. It has novelistic aspects that largely dominate, but it's also so much more. If I had to made a guesstimate, I'd say that it's just under two-thirds novel, just under one-third history, and the remainder is philosophical. There's…