"All About True Amour—a Man's Mostly Unstated Love of His Fellow Man, and Also, Sure, a Man's Love of 'Mannix'"

"The end result is not so much like reliving the movie on the page—although the book does have a few scenes in which the dialogue and descriptive beats are transcribed note-for-note from the screenplay—as much as a catalog of constant diversions that's like being locked inside the New Beverly for a week with Pauline Kael, Harry Knowles and Leonard Maltin. Let that intrigue or daunt you as it may, as you decide whether or not to plunk down $7.48 (the very reasonable Amazon going rate, at press time) for a book that's been deliberately designed to resemble something that would have sat on a rusting metal rack in a drugstore in the '70s. It's definitely not for everybody… not even everybody who loved the film. '"

Chris Willman at Variety reviews Quentin Tarantino's novelization of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.