Tarantino’s latest takes us back to late-60s Hollywood and features DiCaprio as a sometime TV star facing up to his own declining powers in an entertainment landscape that’s changing before his eyes. As ever with Quentin, plot is simply a hook on which to hang crackling, salty dialogue, larger-than-life characterisations (including real-life monsters such as Polanski and Manson), postmodern trickiness and a deluge of pop culture references. Brazen, uneven, probably a few minutes too long and, as always, unmissable.
* The 2.30pm screening will be subtitled for those with hearing loss
2019 | Dir Quentin Tarantino | 159min |
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