According to The Hollywood Reporter, Quentin Tarantino is setting the stage for what will be hailed as his final feature film. The trade newspaper said on Tuesday that the 59-year-old director had penned a script named The Cinema Critic and is planning to “direct” it later this year, although it was unclear if this referred to production or pre-production. The film’s narrative is shrouded in secrecy, while sources have described it as a 1970s Los Angeles story starring a female protagonist. The Reporter, aware of Tarantino’s passion for film history, hypothesized that The Movie Critic could be about Pauline Kael, the famed New Yorker critic who criticized and lauded with an acidic pen. Tarantino hasn’t helmed a film since 2019’s Once a Time in Hollywood, but he has for years contemplated the end of his career, claiming he will quit after his tenth film and even remarking that “most filmmakers have terrible last films.” If both Kill Bill films are counted as one, The Cinema Critic would be his tenth film.