Unranked at the time of writing.
I watched it at my local cinema yesterday, and - especially for the first half of the film - I kept wanting to applaud. SO MANY incredible set pieces, one after another, bang bang bang.
Going in, having seen the trailer, knowing that it was a three-hour film starring Margot Robbie, I was expecting something like The Wolf of Wall Street but about early Golden Age Hollywood. I wasn't far wrong, although it did turn a bit Casino too in the end.
It portrays the decadence and excess of peak Hollywood using the metaphor of decadent and excessive filmmaking - which, granted, means it could have been trimmed here and there, and somewhat undercuts the sentimentality of the ending, but it was just SO MUCH FUN.
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