Overview
- Tarantino published an essay this week in Sight & Sound calling modern Hollywood a “flavourless sausage factory” and saying post‑pandemic movies are routinely marred by flaws, implausibilities, audience pandering and miscasting.
- He named only a few recent films he liked but said Joe Carnahan’s The Rip was the one picture that “grabbed” and “held” him for its whole runtime, praising Carnahan’s direction, the cast, the cinematography and the screenplay.
- The Rip is a Netflix crime thriller released in January 2026 that stars Ben Affleck and Matt Damon as Miami‑Dade officers drawn into corruption tied to millions in cartel cash, and its cast also includes Steven Yeun, Teyana Taylor, Sasha Calle and Kyle Chandler.
- The film’s profile is complicated by a developing defamation lawsuit reported this week from two Miami‑Dade officers who allege the movie mixes fictional material with facts from their experiences and harmed their reputations, a legal matter that could affect the film’s producers and performers.
- Tarantino is simultaneously shifting toward theatre, developing a West End play set for 2027, and he has not committed to timing for his announced final feature, a move that underscores wider industry debates over streaming, compressed theatrical windows and studio risk‑aversion.