The Movie Critic

The Movie Critic will be Quentin Tarantino's 10th and final film. It was slated to enter production in September 2023 but due to the SAG-AFTRA strike it will likely begin filming sometime in 2024. Most likely will be released at the Cannes Film Festival in 2025.

Background

The film is set in Southern California in 1977, the year one of QT's fave films, Rolling Thunder was released (and which he presented as a special screening at Cannes 2023) and also the blockbuster hit Star Wars. The main character is based on a porno rag journalist Tarantino read growing up while he was working (his first job) as a vending machine restocker in his early teen years. Speaking about the critic Tarantino says: "His reviews were a cross between early Howard Stern (rule breaking radio persona) and what Travis Bickle might be if he were a film critic. Think about Travis’ diary entries". In the movie, the publication the critic writes for will be called "The Popstar Pages". There is a character arc similar to that of Travis Bickle in Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver.

• Pre-production: June 2023
• Shooting: TBA 2024
• Release date: tba 2025

News chronology

• Tom Cruise circling a role in The Movie Critic
• Brad Pitt is the first cast member to officially join The Movie Critic, Feb 2024
• May Cannes Interview at Deadline
• Indiewire
• Premiere March 30, 2023 and The Playlist
• Deadline March 27, 2023 article by Damon Wise on QT's 60th
• Deadline March 26, 2023 by Peter Bart
• Will “The Movie Critic” be Quentin Tarantino’s final film? QTA March 15, 2023 and THR March 15, 2023 and Deadline March 14, 2023 on the breaking of the news

Contents:

• Cast & Credits
• Trivia
• Soundtrack
• Pop Culture References
• Pictures
• Posters

Fact box

• Written and directed by: Quentin Tarantino
• Director of Photography: Robert Richardson
• Editor: Fred Raskin