10 Most Divisive Movies Of 2019

4. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

Though Quentin Tarantino's latest film was warmly received by most critics, the mainstream audience response was decidedly more polarising.

Unquestionably the filmmaker's least accessible film in quite some time, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood's entire premise is centered around some very specific pockets of pop-culture that the popcorn-gobbling crowds just weren't familiar with.

And even for those who read up on the Tate murders before watching the movie, Tarantino ultimately willfully deviated from it anyway, and not quite in the Inglourious Basterds-esque, cathartically violent way many expected (though there is most certainly plenty of cathartic violence in its ending).

General audiences found the slow, meandering pacing, lack of "plot," and low-key treatment of Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) frustrating, even if many Tarantino fans loved that he put out such an aggressively singular movie.