Returning after some months to my Woody Allen retrospective. I think one reason this was so successful is because even though it is *about* the dissolution if the relationship, the bulk of the scenes are set during the early part when they’re flirting or settling in together. And that part is a lot of fun both to be in and to watch.

One experiment we don’t see Allen do very much in other work is breaking the fourth wall. He…

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.…