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.

While Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is different to anything that Tarantino has ever done before this movie can be summed up in one word – a masterpiece

It’s an ode to cinema, with all its infinite layers.

It’s still a Tarantino film at heart, but, through the questions he seems to be asking himself, it feels like it was made by someone who has been shaped by age and experience as well.

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