Has Tarantino lost his touch?

Rating: 7/10 (28 August 2019)

First movie by Tarantino I watch in theater, and it was a little bit off. It's almost like a movie that tells you a usual activities behind the scene of every movie that came out from hollywood in the 60's without a build up to something interesting in the end (like Tarantino usually did in his previous movies). I kind of a bit disappointed, I enjoyed it at first, some of the scenes are funny, then some of the flashbacks on some of the characters, their struggle to survive in the world of acting, some shots that I personally think similar to that of contemporary movies (which makes me think that Tarantino gets a little bit off), smart dialogs and phrases, and some powerful casts.
Props to Brad Pitt who always successfully makes his characters really cool and tough (reminds you of Lt. Aldo Raine from 'Inglorious Basterds') and Di Caprio's ability to bring up to life a crybaby, hot-headed, narcissistic ambitious movie star. My god, you need to see how he played his character that makes mistakes by not recalling some of his line in a relatively long take, his frustration from that, then his comeback when one of the star says it was the best acting ever. in the end, Tarantino never forgets to put a happy ending in the end. But without so much of a conflict from a not-so-big of a build up, does it worth it even though personally I like it?