Vital

Rating: 9/10 (13 November 2018)

The key (for me) to The Hateful Eight is that it is fine, fine theater.
And that means that it flows like a vital river--as does all good theater.
It's like a natural phenomenon. But, of course, it's also somehow special, and in that way for which Tarantino is known: Create a scenario in which quiet deceptions and general moral ossifications are flung at high velocities against the wall, examine the data from the scattering, and draw your own moral conclusions.
These are ordinary theatrics. The amazing thing is how Tarantino makes them compellingly ponderable, in real time, on the big screen. Yet again.
I "fault" my rating by one star, but only because this doesn't exceed a very, very high-water mark set by Pulp Fiction.
Check it out.