'OnceUponaTimeinHollywood is an angry movie. More than that, it’s rueful, sincere, and not always the better for it.' melvillmatic reviews:
they’re the force that rewrites history. A Jewish woman named Emmanuelle Mimieux—born Shosanna Dreyfus—lures Hitler, Goebbels, and a broad, boisterous crowd of Nazi leaders to her Paris movie theater to watch a splashy prestige picture about a boyish Nazi hero. Then she barricades the exits and the theater is set on fire, the entire Nazi brass annihilated in one satisfying counterfactual swoop. Highly flammable nitrate prints—movies, of all things—are her accelerant.
I was hung up on that ending: Horrified, entertained, flummoxed by it, in part because it’s so extraordinarily violent where the rest of the film is deceptively leisurely.Jackie Brown The film also seems relatively free of Tarantino’s most distracting stylistic tics; it in fact gets noticeably more tedious whenever it attempts to deploy them . This feels like a pivot. Some of the director’s more recent output has thoroughly metabolized history and genre; these films are eager to show us all that they’ve learned, revamping old tricks to the point of making them feel new.by contrast, deftly holds its pop culture bona fides somewhat at a remove.
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