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"'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' is uneven, unwieldy in its structure and not without its flat patches. But it's also a disarming and characteristically subversive love letter to its inspiration, in which Tarantino rebuilds the Dream Factory as it existed during the time of his childhood, while rewriting the traumatic episode often identified as the end of that era."
[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-cannes-2019-1212805]
"It was overwhelmingly the most anticipated movie of the festival, driven by a single hope: Could this be one of those Quentin Tarantino movies that enters your bloodstream like a drug, where every moment is marked by a certain ineffable something, the X Factor that made 'Pulp Fiction' the indie touchstone of its time? In the end, 'Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood' isn’t quite that X Factor film — though for long stretches (a good more than half of it), it feels like it could be. It’s a heady, engrossing, kaleidoscopic, spectacularly detailed nostalgic splatter collage of a movie, an epic tale of backlot Hollywood in 1969. (...) By the end, Tarantino has done something that’s quintessentially Tarantino, but that no longer feels even vaguely revolutionary. He has reduced the story he’s telling to pulp."
[http://variety.com/2019/film/columns/best-movies-cannes-2019-1203225932/]