Quentin Tarantino gives his opinion about movies since the pandemic: “These days I’d rather read a book.”

Film director Quentin Tarantino is well known not only for his incredible, bloody movies but also for being someone who, when he has an opinion, expresses it forcefully. And while cinema has changed a lot since Tarantino released ‘Reservoir Dogs’, the director believes that the vast majority of movies released over the past six years have been a total disaster.

He shared this opinion in Sight and Sound magazine, where the filmmaker explained how, since the pandemic—at least for him—he has constantly found himself picking apart movies for their flaws and errors. “Since the pandemic, for me anyway, it seems almost impossible for a new movie to come out that I don’t pick to death. Flaws, implausibilities, audience pandering, miscast performers, or just plain stupid shit usually torpedo every new movie coming out of the flavorless sausage factory that used to call itself Hollywood,” he wrote. “These days, the entire concept of what a movie is is more likely to inspire contempt in me than generosity. Which is fair enough, because by comparison, the movies of the last six years make the ’80s seem like the ’30s.”

However, all is not lost; although the director has a few watchable films, the situation is such that “I’d rather read a book.” “I’ve seen movies I’ve liked since then — West Side Story (2021); Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1 & 2 (both 2024), a few others, but nothing that really held me in its grip and swept me away to the magical land of enjoyment that I used to visit and was the reason why I loved movies above all art forms,” Tarantino said. “These days I’d rather read a book.”

Tarantino Puts His Latest Film on Hold

Although there had been talk at the time about what Quentin Tarantino’s next film would be, ‘The Film Critic’ was canceled by the director. The film was “based on a guy who really lived but was never really famous, and he used to write movie reviews for a porn rag.” Now, with no new film project on the horizon, Tarantino is currently working on his first stage play, ‘The Popinjay Cavalier,’ which will open in London’s West End in 2027.

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