Quentin Tarantino crammed so much stuff into his polarizing meta-movie “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” that nearly a month after its release, fans and critics are still trying to unpack it. How much of the film is historically accurate? How much is revisionist? Is the film a work of genius, an exercise in nostalgia porn or just a problematic mess? (And where does it rate with regard to Tarantino’s well-documented history of foot worship?)

So much to explore! Here’s the best of what to read online, with an eye on the controversies, the context and the critical response.

Interviews

‘Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio Talk Tarantino, Stardom and What Might Have Been’ [The New York Times]

“You know when you have an altercation in public or you put your foot in your mouth, and you’re driving home and you think of that witty thing that you wished you would have said?” Brad Pitt said to our critic Manohla Dargis. “His dialogue is that witty thing.”