Once Upon a Time ...in Hollywood (2019)

Rating: 8/10 (9 February 2020)

Quentin Tarantino's 9th film, a love letter to Hollywood's bygone Golden Age, is a film only one man could have dreamt up - there's long monologues discussing the careers of imaged actors, the Spaghetti-Western film industry, and entire sequences revolving around the inner-workings of Hollywood film sets. Yet unlike earlier works, Once Upon a Time... somehow feels like a film Quentin made for himself, rather than an audience. The film's final act is classic Tarantino, but the film never manages to sustain the artistic or entertaining heights of prior masterpieces.