Jordi Costa Fotogramas Apr 13, 2026 5/5

...Volume 2 is very different—in tone, textures, and rhythms—from its predecessor: here, the violence progresses towards minimalism, while the characters shed their abstract skin so that their souls can grow (and overflow). [Full review in Spanish]

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Andy Punter InSession Film Apr 28, 2025 B+

It might be the more indulgent volume, but its willingness to explore the complex heart beneath the carnage makes it essential viewing and a journey well worth revisiting.

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Frank J. Avella The Contending Jan 27, 2025 A-

As in many Tarantino films, his dialogue is never really specific to characters. It’s Tarantino’s world and everyone in it basically speaks the same way. But incredible actors like Thurman manage to make the lines her own.

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Aaron Neuwirth Why So Blu Jan 22, 2025 5/5

Kill Bill Volume 2 strikes with all the right chords and swords.

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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Nov 8, 2024 4/10

It just can’t live up to the pacing and intensity – the rollercoaster ride – of its predecessor, feeling like a duller, inferior half, even if it presents an uncommonly suitable conclusion.

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Nick Rogers Midwest Film Journal Apr 25, 2024 3/5

Twenty years later, "Kill Bill, Vol. 2" is not the career-worst catastrophe it felt like then. Despite a great performance from David Carradine, this frustratingly inconsistent back half remains burdened by handling every emotional beat of the story.

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Paul Kanieski KSQD Community Radio Jul 21, 2023

Unlike Vol. 1, Vol. 2 is more leisurely paced and less action-oriented, allowing for far more of the rich, idiosyncratic dialog Tarantino is known for.

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John Brhel Vague Visages Jun 5, 2023

It’s Tarantino’s idiosyncratic style that makes it transcend those previous, lesser-known works...

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Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies Aug 22, 2022 4.5/5

"Kill Bill" is a celebration of cinema. But with Volume 2 (Tarantino) adds layers of humanity and pathos that makes this more than a filmmaker indulging his inner cinephile.

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Cory Woodroof Williamson Home Page Jun 23, 2022

Not quiiite as good as Vol. 1 (what is?), but the David Carradine scenes sure are.

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Howard Gorman NME (New Musical Express) Jun 10, 2021

The sequel is the more potent package of the two.

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David Walsh World Socialist Web Site Feb 15, 2021

Kill Bill is not a critique of sadistic bullying, it revels in it. ... The film itself is oppressive and bullying, as well unpleasantly pleased with itself.

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Fico Cangiano CineXpress Podcast May 29, 2020 4/5

Not as electric as the first part, yet Tarantino excels by entertaining you with more words than punches. David Carradine is fantastic in quite the juicy, memorable role. [Full review in Spanish]

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Micheal Compton Bowling Green Daily News Nov 16, 2019 A

Carradine is fantastic as Bill, while Thurman deserves consideration for an Academy Award nomination with her performance as the Bride.

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PJ Nabarro Patrick Nabarro Aug 13, 2019 3/5

Tarantino's attempt to inject a more solemn tone as the narrative reaches its climax creates an awkward mesh with the proceeding pulpiness.

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Ellie Lucas The Dispatch (Lexington, NC) Jun 5, 2019 3.5/4

To watch a Tarantino film is to surrender wholeheartedly to his giddy genius, and this, his magnum opus, is no exception.

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Namrata Joshi Outlook Jan 7, 2019 3/4

n the hyper-kinetic Kill Bill 1 you didn't know when the end happened, in Vol 2 you often wish the proceedings could hurtle to the finale, fast.

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David Ansen Newsweek Mar 13, 2018

Vol. 2 fills in the motivational and emotional blanks that left the first movie tasting like a meal made only of appetizers.

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Will Self London Evening Standard Jan 9, 2018

I don't even want to do Tarantino and his pathetic accomplices the honour of recounting the narrative of the second "volume" of this exercise in trashpedalling, and frankly I don't need to, because there isn't a plot to speak of.

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Christopher Orr The New Republic Jan 5, 2018

Where KB1 had the pace of an ADHD six-year-old on a sugar high, KB2 has been Ritalinized, its tempo slowed to a crawl in self-conscious, and self-defeating, imitation of Sergio Leone. It's two hours that feel like five.

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