Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood

Like most of Tarantino's work, Once Upon A Time in... Hollywood is eliciting very strong emotions on both sides of the spectrum.

I love this movie... When [director Quentin Tarantino] pulls the ripcord and it goes bananas, it is just so much fun.

You can feel the love of cinema in it, but I thought it was fantastically ill-disciplined and indulgent and whole blocks of "DVD extras."

[Tarantino's] most personal film, it is also the one he has hinted may be his last. If so, he will have quit while he's ahead.

This is a film set in a stunningly evoked Hollywood past. It can also be read as a commentary on Hollywood present.

Consummately acted by an unusually fine ensemble cast, the film will provoke and enthral, a sure indication the director has succeeded in making not only a handsome and nostalgic movie but also a challenging and subversive one.

Once Upon A Time in Hollywood just might be Tarantino's masterpiece.

The film analyzes the functioning of entertainment industry, the social and ideological ethnic resentments and the construction of the American Dream. Tarantino carries out a kind of historical and cultural revisionism with the aim of rewriting the facts.

Its alternate ending to real-life events is meant to be controversial, but for me, it’s a vision of how everything should have happened if the world was fair or, indeed, a fairy tale… in Hollywood.

For film nerds like myself, watching Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is like being treated to a tour through the cinematic theme park that is Tarantino’s mind.