The director Quentin Tarantino loves genre, the grungier the better. His first three films, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown, are gangster movies—or, rather, gangster mutants, for their creator relaxed conventions for detours into gallows humor, pop-culture disquisitions, horrific accidents, surprisingly tender romantic interludes, and Hemingway-esque trials of (...)
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Why be surprised that Tarantino has made a crazed movie? He's a sadist who relishes revenge. Small wonder he has other repulsive psychic kinks.