Once Upon A Time In Hollywood Review: 7 Ups & 3 Downs

1. Audiences Will Be Debating It For Years

Every Tarantino film has its mysteries and ambiguities, and along with Reservoir Dogs' ambiguous outcome and the contents of Pulp Fiction's briefcase, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is sure to be debated by audiences forever more.

It's not so much one particular enigma as it is the context of the entire movie, which is bathed in layers of unreality, where numerous sequences can be interpreted as wishes, dreams, memories, or a bizarre collision of all three.

To this end Tarantino's latest is a more scattershot film than perhaps anything else he's ever made before - save perhaps for Death Proof - and also more surreal.

Figuring it all out will require a few repeat viewings, for sure, which compensates somewhat for the fact that neither the writing nor direction feels quite as water-tight as in the director's best films.