Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2019, comedy, drama, suspense
162 minutes
Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model...
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9.5
2019-08-16
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is three different things all at once. This is, obviously, a love letter to late 1960s Hollywood — and, in length, to Tarantino’s childhood — but it is also both a wish-fulfillment alternate reality revenge fantasy for Hollywood of that era — a cinematic opportunity for payback and justice — as well as a genuinely moving and warm hangout movie about male bonding, male... Read more
9.5
Jeremy Lebens of The Daily Rotation
2019-07-27
It's meaty, full of colorful characters and gorgeous set pieces that make for a wild trip down memory lane. It might not be Tarantino's best, but it's definitely his boldest and most ambitious.
9.0
2019-07-11
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood might be set in filmmaking ground zero, but unlike most of Tarantino's work, it's about something other than simply movies. Read more
9.0
Rob Wallis of Of All The Film Sites
2019-08-12
Why choose between flamethrowers and feeling when you can have both?
9.0
2019-08-28
Unlike what we’ve come to expect from him, this is sentimental cinema and as sweet as a five-dollar shake. A brilliant film made by one of the world’s biggest film fans…and a must-see for everyone else. Read more
9.0
2019-08-21
This feels like a slightly flawed masterpiece. Tarantino’s Mona Lisa with a few accidental smudges. Read more
8.8
David McGinnis of Fellowship of the Screen
2019-08-13
Most of all, the film is a loving, fanatically-detailed recreation of a specific point in time. It’s drenched in authentic radio broadcasts and signage, like Tarantino saw the Coen brothers’ Hail, Caesar! and cracked his knuckles.
8.8
Jason King of Salty Popcorn
2019-08-18
If Tarantino dialled it back a bit, gave us a flowing plot, cut the runtime and wasn’t so indulgent Once Upon a Time in Hollywood would hold more mass appeal.
8.3
David Whitley of DoubleFeaturePreachers
2020-01-28
Tarantino’s penultimate film is a one that is clearly all his own.
8.3
2019-07-28
As a gripping drama, it might be too much of a shaggy-dog story to proclaim the film one of Tarantino’s best, but as a pop-culture pastiche featuring solid performances and a handful of truly ingenious, provocative scenes, OUATIH shows why his legion of fans are willing to overlook the filmmaker’s self-gratification. Read more
8.0
2019-08-17
Meandering, witty, funny, violent and above all endearingly nostalgic, Once Upon A Time In … Hollywood continues a winning streak from Tarantino while also feeling vastly different from anything else in his body of work. Read more
8.0
2019-07-26
Bolstered by strong performances and immersive production design, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is an introspective and rewarding film from Tarantino. Read more
7.5
2019-07-25
Tarantino is at his most lively here. He clearly is having fun being able to create this vision of 1969, full with allusions to the period and to the Hollywood products he watched so much of in his formative years. Read more
7.0
2019-08-05
With all its ups and down, and definitely strained in terms of duration, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a worthy ride that never stumbles into vulgarity. Read more
6.0
2019-08-16
The entire film is worth watching, highs and lows, for the last twenty explosive minutes. Read more
6.0
2019-11-30
The sole redeeming feature of this film is its forensic attention to reproducing the sets, fashion, styles, and social mores of the 1960s. Read more
6.0
2019-07-26
For better or for worse, Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood is Quentin Tarantino doing whatever he wants. Even through its glaring detractors, the film is still going to get out of this review with a pass. However, this is not Tarantino’s best work by far and it may even be his worst yet. Read more
6.0
2019-07-24
Following that classical starter with his chosen target of story setting, the director’s usual approach of homage becomes readily apparent. Making so many fairy tales with a fat creative license to revise whatever he wants, fancy, zeal, and style are never Quentin Tarantino’s problems. The tightness of his brand of chatty and meandering excessiveness is usually the hangup. This movie has some of the best of the former and st... Read more
4.0
2019-12-21
A nearly three-hour wait for a single moment of fantastic frenzy amounts to minimal entertainment. Read more
4.0
Shannon Schultz of DoubleFeaturePreachers
2020-01-28
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, from what I can tell, has no plot.
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10
2020-05-17
Een formidabele Leonardo DiCaprio & Brad Pitt ondersteund door de bloedmooie Margot Robbie, een heerlijke zeitgeist, doordachte vintage enscenering met een prijswinnende production design, echte suspense wanneer het hoort en vooral… Moordende Tarantino-dialogen! Read more
10
2019-08-12
Alleen de Pulp King kan ons door meer dan 2.5 uur cinema loodsen zonder te zweten... Read more
9.0
2019-08-17
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is een sprookje zoals alleen Tarantino hem kan vertellen. Werkelijk alle elementen kloppen. Het schrijfwerk is van grote klasse, de heerlijk gekozen soundtrack staat volledig in dienst van de film en de acteurs presteren op de top van hun kunnen. Read more
9.0
2019-08-15
Een rijke bioscoopervaring met oog voor karakterontwikkeling en heel veel liefdevolle verwijzingen naar een lang vervlogen, sprookjesachtige tijd. Read more
8.5
2019-08-16
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is de meest artistieke film van het jaar en straalt affectie uit voor de filmindustrie. Di... Read more
8.5
2019-08-15
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood zal zeker niet door iedereen evenveel gewaardeerd worden, maar voor wie wel het geduld heeft en ervoor openstaat krijgt een mooie film te zien. Read more
8.0
Paul Hauer of Filmliefhebber
2019-12-21
De komische misdaadfilm is een authentieke Tarantino. Sfeervol door de zorgvuldig gekozen settings en soundtrack, vol met interessante dialogen, gitzwarte humor en een onderhoudend verhaal. Dat zowel actiemomenten als spanning en drama bevat.
8.0
2019-09-04
Niet iedereen zal van deze film kunnen genieten, maar ik heb er van genoten en wil ‘m na het opdoen van kennis over Manson’s Hollywood graag nog een keer zien. Read more
8.0
2019-08-23
Ten slotte is ook deze Tarantinoproductie weer een visueel pareltje met prachtige buitenscènes en onverbloemd geweld. Read more
7.0
2020-02-23
Een prima en grappige film, maar toch ook wel te gemaakt en te vlak. Read more
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