Quentin Tarantino
Movie Review: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
4.5 stars out of 5I feel like I’m in an unhealthy long-term relationship with Quentin Tarantino. We got off to an excellent start, but now he disappoints me time and again, and yet always manages to lure me back. Every now and then, he surprises me with a delightful bed-and-breakfast long weekend (um, wait, I […]
Movie Review: The Hateful Eight (Special Roadshow Engagement)
3.5 stars out of 5 If you’re going to shoot in Ultra Panavision 70 — the first movie in nearly 50 years to do so — maybe, just maybe, don’t set the great majority of the 3 hour, 7 minute film in ONE ROOM? But hey, I’m not the filmmaker here. Quentin Tarantino is. And […]
Movie Review: Django Unchained
3 stars out of 5 Late in the film, a puffy-looking Quentin Tarantino shows up, speaking with an Australian accent. And that perfectly encapsulates this movie: Quirky, entertaining, random, and totally bloated. I’m looking back at my 3.5-star review of Inglourious Basterds, and much of the same applies here: form over content, style over substance, […]
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