Golden Muriel for Best Picture of 2009
Inglourious Basterds [263 points/22 votes]
“Fuckin’ bliss. A sprawling, multi-character epic that is simply stunning in all departments. It’s suspenseful, hilarious, classy, trashy, terrifying, exciting, rousing, unpredictable, brilliantly photographed and written (it’s amazing how the dialogue still has Tarantino’s pitch-perfect zing even when largely in German and French with English subtitles), and enlivenened with a full gallery of stupendous performances (chiefly Melanie Laurent as the fiercely sympathetic and heroic Shoshanna and a marvelously scenery-chewing Brad Pitt, whose hillbilly twang ultimately sets up the single biggest laugh the film received in the theatre late in the film). This is a perfect film, a cinephile’s wet dream, and the best film of 2009.” - Jason Alley
