Quentin Tarantino Picks His ‘Masterpiece,’ His ‘Favorite’ Movie, and the One He Was ‘Born to Make’

Quentin Tarantino has revealed which one of his movies is his all-time favorite.

During a recent appearance on The Church of Tarantino podcast, the two-time Oscar winner opened up about which of his own films he holds closest and which he considers his best work. He also revealed why his long-rumored 10th and final project, The Movie Critic, has been shelved.

“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is my favorite, Inglourious Basterds is my best,” Tarantino said. “But I think Kill Bill is the ultimate Quentin movie, like nobody else could’ve made it. Every aspect about it is so particularly ripped, like with tentacles and bloody tissue, from my imagination and my id and my loves and my passion and my obsession. So I think Kill Bill is the movie I was born to make, I think Inglourious Basterds is my masterpiece, but Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is my favorite.”

The Pulp Fiction filmmaker went on to separate his best films from his strongest screenplays. According to Tarantino, the Brad Pitt-led Inglorious Basterds is his “best script,” while his 2015 film, The Hateful Eight, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood are right behind it. He added that The Hateful Eight is his “best servicing of my material as a director.”

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As for his long-speculated swan song, The Movie Critic, Tarantino confirmed that the project has been officially scrapped altogether. The project was first teased in 2022 and began development as an eight-episode TV series, according to Variety, but Tarantino’s interest eventually faded away as he didn’t want to recycle ideas.

“I wasn’t really excited about dramatizing what I wrote when I was in pre-production, partly because I’m using the skillset that I learned from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood [of] ‘How are we going to turn Los Angeles into the Hollywood of 1969 without using CGI?'” said Tarantino. “It was something we had to pull off. We had to achieve it. It wasn’t for sure that we could do it.”

He added, “The Movie Critic, there was nothing to figure out. I already kind of knew, more or less, how to turn L.A. into an older time. It was too much like the last one.”