This is a movie that across its 2 hours and 41 minutes features a noxious white supremacist group called the Christmas Adventurers, a snarling Sean Penn character who walks like he has a branding iron permanently stuck up his ass, and an uncomfortably high Leonardo DiCaprio arguing over revolutionary code words with a comrade. And somehow, on top of it all, we get a striking multigenerational story about a family caught up in fighting for what’s right, told with a kind of prescience about the current state of America that will be marveled at for a long time to come.
Read MoreSomewhere inside, the filmmaker believes that his beloved analog Hollywood could have been rescued by a man of action like Cliff. While we’re encouraged to get to know Robbie’s depiction of Tate and root for her, she’s more of an icon for the period of time that Tarantino so carefully recreates here, and preserves in other ventures like his New Beverly Cinema in the real-life L.A.
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