Overview
- Quentin Tarantino wrote in Sight & Sound, published Thursday, June 4, 2026, that contemporary Hollywood has become a “geschmacklose Wurstfabrik” and that he now finds new films almost impossible to watch without tearing them apart.
- He said only a few films from the past six years have pleased him and specifically named Steven Spielberg’s 2021 West Side Story, the first two parts of Kevin Costner’s Horizon saga, and Netflix’s The Rip.
- Tarantino praised The Rip for Joe Carnahan’s direction, the cast and visual design, and called the screenplay “sensationell,” saying the film gripped him for its entire runtime.
- The Rip is a Joe Carnahan crime thriller on Netflix starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck about two Miami‑Dade officers who encounter $20 million in cartel money and corruption, and it currently holds about a 77 percent critic score on Rotten Tomatoes.
- Tarantino’s high‑profile denunciation of studio filmmaking paired with his rare endorsement may raise the profile of streaming originals and sharpen the debate over artistic standards in big‑budget Hollywood work.