Quentin Tarantino Has Made His Best Movie in a Decade

Rick Dalton is good at playing cowboys. At the start of Quentin Tarantino’s new film, , the viewer sees Dalton (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) in action, starring as Jake Cahill in a black-and-white TV series called , where he dispenses justice in the Old West. The show is a throwback to the late-’50s, when TV programs such as and ruled the airwaves, and steely-eyed hunks like Dalton represented the epitome of American cool. But takes place in 1969, as the last waves of the swinging ’60s lap over mainstream culture, and Dalton’s hardened image has