Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood (2019)

Tarantino pulls the same revisionist history trick with the Manson murders that he did with Hitler in "Inglorious Basterds." I didn't like it much then, and I don't like it much now.

While I appreciate the performances turned in by Pitt, DiCaprio, and even Margaret Qualley, the movie's too enamored with itself. It takes way too much time to do anything, and not everything should be given so much breath. The good stuff here is the actor aging out of leading-man status and his longtime stuntman/only friend. Why take the power of that away by stapling a "hey look at THIS" bullshit-but-wouldn't-it-be-cool-if-this-is-what-happened storyline to it? It's distracting and unnecessary. This could've been a masterpiece without it.

C