Inglourious Basterds currently beats Reservoir Dogs 64–36

Basterds leads Reservoir Dogs. The epic edges the debut.

36% 64%

Based on 11 head-to-head votes across 1 bracket

The Verdict Director's Cut

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Basterds leading Reservoir Dogs says the ambitious version of Tarantino outperforms the economical one. Waltz's Hans Landa is the specific advantage: the farmhouse interrogation, the strudel scene, a performance conducted in four languages with a precision that makes every other villain in Tarantino's filmography look like they're working from a smaller palette. Reservoir Dogs has the debut's energy, the ear scene, the Mexican standoff, Roth's slow bleed, and seventeen years later that energy still registers. But Basterds proved Tarantino could sustain tension across multiple countries, languages, and timelines without losing the conversational menace that made him famous, and the proof outperforms the promise.

The Numbers

	Reservoir Dogs	Inglourious Basterds
Head-to-Head	36%	64%
Overall Win Rate	59%	60%
Championships	12	18
Budget	$1M	$70M
Return	2.4x	4.6x

Where This Matchup Sits

Different genres, but both carry weight: Reservoir Dogs sits at #5 in Crime on BingeBracket, and Inglourious Basterds sits at #7 in Drama.

Looking at Quentin Tarantino's 8 films on BingeBracket, Reservoir Dogs ranks #2 and Inglourious Basterds ranks #1.

When facing other films, Jackie Brown loses to both of them on the platform. Whatever separates these two, they're both a clear step above that opponent.

The championship record tells the same story: Inglourious Basterds has 18 tournament wins to Reservoir Dogs's 12. The pedigree gap matches the head-to-head gap.

Reservoir Dogs (1992) and Inglourious Basterds (2009) are 17 years apart, which makes raw box office comparisons misleading. Relative to their budgets, both returned a similar multiple — but Inglourious Basterds wins the head-to-head.