Quentin Tarantino looking at the camera on the red carpet at an event.Image via Carla Van Wagoner/Future Image/Cover Images
The last few years have been eerily quiet for Quentin Tarantino, who hasn’t directed a feature film since 2019’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. The official sequel to the 2019 Oscar-winning film, The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, is set to premiere later this year in IMAX on November 25 before arriving on Netflix a few weeks later. Tarantino did not direct the film — David Fincher did — but he did pen the script for the Brad Pitt-led sequel, marking his first script that’s made it to the screen since 2019. There were whispers for years that Tarantino was going to make one final movie about a film critic, but this idea is seemingly dead in the water. There’s no word yet on if he will ever direct another movie or if his directorial career is over.
While Quentin Tarantino doesn’t share any stylistic overlap with Christopher Nolan, the two directors do have one thing in common: both directors have prioritized quality over quantity in their careers. Unlike other all-time great directors like Ridley Scott and Steven Spielberg, Tarantino has only directed a handful of movies, but he’s spent extra time on each, ensuring that all of his films are up to specific quality standards. One of the most underrated movies of his career came all the way back in 2015 when he teamed up with Kurt Russell and Walton Goggins for The Hateful Eight, which grossed over $160 million at the global box office against a reported budget of around $44 million. The film follows a bounty hunter and his prisoner who are forced to seek shelter in the middle of a frosty Wyoming cabin inhabited by nefarious characters.
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Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie? Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
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🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
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What kind of film experience do you actually want? The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.
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Which idea grabs you most in a film? Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?
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How do you like your story told? Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
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What makes a truly great antagonist? The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
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What do you want from a film’s ending? The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
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Which setting pulls you in most? Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.
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What cinematic craft impresses you most? Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
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What kind of main character do you root for? The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
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How do you feel about a film that takes its time? Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
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What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema? The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
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The Academy Has Decided Your Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
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Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.
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Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
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Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
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No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
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Here’s How To Watch ‘The Hateful Eight’ on Streaming
The Hateful Eight is available to stream via Lionsgate’s streaming service, MovieSphere, but it’s also on Fawesome TV, the streaming service that’s completely free, minus the cost of a few ads throughout a movie. The Hateful Eight earned scores of 74% from critics and 77% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, and while this does put it at the lower end of Tarantino’s filmography, they are still solid scores that would be closer to the top of the list of most other directors. Samuel L. Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Tim Roth also have key roles in The Hateful Eight. The cleanest elevator pitch for The Hateful Eight is The Thing meets The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The film features all the snowy isolation and paranoia you’d want from a Western that also boasts some brutal scenes, especially at the end.
Check out The Hateful Eight streaming for free on Fawesome TV and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Quentin Tarantino’s future and past projects.
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Release Date
December 25, 2015
Runtime
188 minutes
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Producers
Bob Weinstein, Georgia Kacandes, Harvey Weinstein, Richard N. Gladstein, Shannon McIntosh
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