HOLLYWOOD — Quentin Tarantino is back, making another much-publicized and controversial splash similar to (but with more sociological implications) his one-two punch with "Kill Bill: Vol. 1" in 2003 and "Vol. 2" a year later.

Before that comeback, there was a six-year movieless stretch that followed the nonhit "Jackie Brown."

His new film, although set in Europe during World War II, has been deemed by some reviewers to have little to do with the war, with Jews, or with the Nazis, but more to do with the writer-director's personal fantasies and habitual homages to old movies.