 Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun @-@ Times gave the film four stars out of four and said : " The film offers one sensational sequence after another , all set around these two intriguing characters who seem opposites but share pragmatic , financial and personal issues . " Ebert also added , " had I not been prevented from seeing it sooner because of an injury , this would have been on my year 's best films list . " Peter Bradshaw , film critic for The Guardian , awarded the film five stars , writing : " I can only say Django delivers , wholesale , that particular narcotic and delirious pleasure that Tarantino still knows how to <unk> in the cinema , something to do with the manipulation of surfaces . It 's as unwholesome , deplorable and delicious as a forbidden cigarette . " Writing in The New York Times , critic A. O. Scott compared Django to Tarantino 's earlier Inglourious Basterds : " Like Inglourious Basterds , Django Unchained is crazily entertaining , brazenly irresponsible and also ethically serious in a way that is entirely consistent with its playfulness . " Designating the film a Times ' critics ' pick , Scott said Django is " a troubling and important movie about slavery and racism . " Filmmaker Michael Moore praised Django , tweeting that the movie " is one of the best film satires ever . A rare American movie on slavery and the origins of our sick racist history . " 
