Letterboxd — Your life in film

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Life is stranger than fiction. Rodriguez is cool. He's too cool. We start knowing little about him. We finish knowing little more. He gives nothing away. He slides seemingly effortlessly…

Not even the great Avon Barksdale can elevate this beyond a gritty, humourless and mostly pretty ordinary shoot-’em-up. Visually it veers from inconsistently graded to shoddily composited, and its gimmicky…

This is the fascinating story of Rodriguez, a Dylan-esque artist whose songs became massively important within South Africa but achieved very little elsewhere. The myths surrounding his supposed suicide, and…

Loved the pure Western indulgence of this film and the brutally honest portrayal of gun-loving, nigger hating ole U.S. of A. Christoph Waltz clearly making a deal with Tarantino that…