This was sold as a movie about NASA faking a moon landing as a backup plan in case the real landing didn’t come off, but that’s actually a pretty small part of it, introduced when the picture is already halfway over. It’s really a romantic comedy in which ad exec Scarlett Johansson has to convince NASA launch director Channing Tatum that public relations aren’t a distraction but are actually valuable to his mission, as Apollo has become less popular in…

A real departure for Tarantino, whose style over his last several pictures has been to dispense with everything that isn't a major setpiece and trust the audience to follow. Here, he luxuriates in the mellow L.A. vibe for 2 hrs. 20 minutes until the final confrontation, much as he did in Jackie Brown (although the violence in that movie was sudden and brief, which is certainly not the case here).

Reviews of this have seen it as QT's paen to…

This was the craziest, weirdest, dumbest, most fantastic experience I have had in a cinema as long as I can remember. The movie has essentially no dramatic structure, the stakes are all entirely gossamer (and aren’t even really resolved), the setting makes little sense, and every dramatic conflict is either resolved or abandoned three minutes later, frequently both. It’s the film of the year.

You absolutely have to go see this, and you have to do it in the theater.…