'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood': What the Critics Are Saying

Seven reviews summarized.

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Reviews are in for Quentin Tarantino's ninth film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday and resulted in a six-minute standing ovation. Though critics who filed reviews from the French festival had some reservations, they too were positive about the project, particularly commending the film's performances and evocative setting.

In The Telegraph, critic Robbie Collin praised the film's fairy tale-like evocation of 1969, writing, "Tarantino luxuriates in bringing this prelapsarian heyday roaring back to life, and the effect is pure movie-world intoxication, laced with in-jokes and nibble-ably sweet period detail." Collin also does not spoil the film's ending, but hints that the violent finale is the "single most shocking sequence in Tarantino's filmography." Though the film revels in a "toxicity" at the end, he adds, "the transgressive thrill is undeniable, and the artistry mesmerisingly assured."