Review: 'Django Unchained' is brilliantly acted across the board
Leonardo DiCaprio plays Calvin Candle in "Django Unchained," directed by Quentin Tarantino. DiCaprio is nominated for a Golden Globe for best supporting actor for the role. (ANDREW COOPER SMPSP – AP) This week's new movies include “Django
Leonardo DiCaprio plays Calvin Candle in "Django Unchained," directed by Quentin Tarantino. DiCaprio is nominated for a Golden Globe for best supporting actor for the role. (ANDREW COOPER SMPSP – AP) This week's new movies include “Django
Quentin Tarantino and Jamie Foxx redress the horrors of American slavery.
In “Django Unchained,” as always in Quentin Tarantino's films, there's a lot of signifying going on. The action—as well as the costumes, dialogue, framings, music, and gestures, the entire spectrum of cinematic expression—comes to the screen with, in
Tarantino is possessed by two emotions—love and revenge—and the over-all subject of the movie is essentially a counterfactual historical warning: that the South got off easily with the Civil War when, in a proper balance of






