Quentin Tarantino’s 165-Minute Western Masterpiece Is Officially Streaming on Prime Video

The last few years have been quiet for Quentin Tarantino after he last directed a movie in 2019, but this is all going to change soon with the launch of his next film in IMAX this November. Tarantino has only directed nine movies in his career, which is significantly less than some of the other filmmakers in his generation, but he’s won two Oscars and been nominated for several more. Tarantino recently guided Brad Pitt to the best performance of his career in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, which grossed over $400 million at the box office against a $90 million budget — this budget is relatively modest for as many stars that appear in the film. Pitt will return to his Oscar-winning role later this year in The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth.

Over the years, Quentin Tarantino has directed some of the most famous films of all time, which is even more impressive considering how his total stacks up to other legendary filmmakers like Ridley Scott or Steven Spielberg. Most fans would agree a movie like Pulp Fiction is best suited to be at the top of the list of his most iconic films, but there’s another that would certainly get some votes if you were to conduct a general poll. We’re talking, of course, about Django Unchained, the 2012 dark Western epic starring Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz. The film also features outstanding supporting performances from Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins, Leonardo DiCaprio, and even Kerry Washington. 14 years after Django Unchained ripped off another successful theatrical run, the film is officially available to watch on Prime Video via a Howdy subscription — it’s also streaming on MovieSphere by Lionsgate.

Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.

You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.

You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.

You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.

You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.

You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.

What Is ‘Django Unchained’ About?

Not only did Christoph Waltz win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor thanks to his role in Django Unchained, but Tarantino also won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Both star and writer also won BAFTA’s in these respective categories, and Waltz also won the Oscar three years prior thanks to his role in Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. The official synopsis for the film, which earned scores of 87% from critics and 92% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows:

“Two years before the Civil War, Django (Jamie Foxx), a slave, finds himself accompanying an unorthodox German bounty hunter named Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) on a mission to capture the vicious Brittle brothers. Their mission successful, Schultz frees Django, and together they hunt the South’s most-wanted criminals. Their travels take them to the infamous plantation of shady Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), where Django’s long-lost wife (Kerry Washington) is still a slave.”

“Two years before the Civil War, Django (Jamie Foxx), a slave, finds himself accompanying an unorthodox German bounty hunter named Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) on a mission to capture the vicious Brittle brothers. Their mission successful, Schultz frees Django, and together they hunt the South’s most-wanted criminals. Their travels take them to the infamous plantation of shady Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), where Django’s long-lost wife (Kerry Washington) is still a slave.”

Check out Django Unchained on streaming and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Quentin Tarantino’s future projects.

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