'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' is a jubilant, wistful, altogether exhilarating comeback for Quentin Tarantino. But where does it fit into our critic's ranking of his films?
Photo: Maya Robinson and Kelly Chiello and Photo by Miramax This article originally published in 2015 as part of Vulture’s Tarantino Week. We’ve updated it to include the auteur’s latest, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
As usual, his foreplay is brilliant. Samuel Jackson plays bounty hunter Marquis Warren, who gets caught in a blizzard en route to Red Rock and begs a ride in a stagecoach with another hunter, John Ruth , and his prisoner, Daisy .
So Death Proof is a female-empowerment movie — in theory — but dredged up from the psyche of a movie freak who loves women onscreen almost as much as he loves to punish women onscreen.An epic mess, but loaded with amazing set pieces and taken over by Tarantino’s most charismatically murderous villain, Christoph Waltz as Nazi Colonel Hans Landa.
The other amazing scene is a near-peripheral one: A furtive meeting between a spy and a British agent in a pub cellar full of Nazis that builds and builds and builds, until your head feels about to explode. But it’s the climax that is most outlandish.
After killing scores of people in Vol. 1, the Bride kills but one person here, though there’s a juicy maiming that compensates for the movie’s relative lack of blood — and then some. The one is, of course, Bill, and the long one-act play — a psychodrama, a family drama, a philosophical debate — leading to the swift, bloodless climax is proof that Tarantino is twisting, maybe even writhing within the revenge-saga structure, the way Shakespeare did in Hamlet.
That violence: It’s almost all offscreen and very nearly blood-free. The elaborate ruse of Samuel L. Jackson’s Ordell to get a pipsqueak he just bailed out of jail into the trunk of his car so that he can execute the poor sap seems ridiculous … except that Tarantino loves, loves, loves it when a character begins to talk and just keeps talking, savoring the words, stretching out time.
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