Bold, brash 'Basterds' yet another masterwork from Quentin Tarantino

It's always an unparalleled pleasure to go see a new Quentin Tarantino film, in part because there's never a fear that I'll see anything less than a masterpiece.

No other major American filmmaker working today - even the greatest, from Scorsese and Spielberg to newer voices like Anderson and Fincher - can claim that each and every one of his films attains the status of true greatness, so it's amazing to have at least one working director whose entire track record of films ("Reservoir Dogs," "Pulp Fiction," "Jackie Brown," "Kill Bill," "Death Proof" and now the nutty World War II revenge yarn "Inglourious Basterds") is comprised entirely of four-star works.

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Bold, brash 'Basterds' yet another masterwork from Quentin Tarantino