Review of Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) by Dana Stevens for Slate — 25 Jul 2019
It’s fine to walk out of this movie not quite sure what Tarantino was using his story’s proximity to this real-life tragedy to say; that’s part of the ambiguity inherent in making art. But it’s dispiriting to suspect that part of why he wanted to stage a Manson-adjacent story was because the accoutrements — the period cars and costumes and neon signs, the glowering barefoot hippie girls, the acid-laced cigarettes and glowing movie marquees — were just so cool.
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This review of Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) was written by Dana Stevens and published by Slate on 25 Jul 2019.
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood has generally received very positive reviews.
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