with Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt playing a TV actor and stuntman who cross paths with the Manson cult, Tarantino has created outrageous, disorientating entertainment... and also brilliant
Quentin Tarantino's gloriously fun alt-history of '60s Hollywood; It sits at the mature end of Tarantino's work, bringing his tongue-in-cheek storytelling together with exquisite craft and killer lead performances from Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio
Quentin Tarantino re-creates the Hollywood of 50 years ago with a fantastically detailed and almost swoony time-machine precision; It's a heady, engrossing, kaleidoscopic, spectacularly detailed nostalgic splatter collage of a film
it's a grand playground for the director to further fetishize old pop culture, to break things and hurt people, and to bring a wide-eyed glee and a robust sense of perversity to the whole craft of moviemaking
a lopsided cultural mashup as viewed through Tarantino's exuberant cinematic filter; "Once Upon a Time" is an unapologetic fantasy of the kind Tarantino has relished in his recent spate of projects