What is Quentin Tarantino‘s greatest movie? Before you answer, we’re going to wager you haven’t seen it — namely because it’s never been released. Not really. Back in July, IndieWire declared Tarantino’s best film to be “Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair,” which combines both theatrically released parts of “Kill Bill” and was Tarantino’s original vision as one complete movie.
After a handful of screenings at Tarantino’s own Vista Theater, Lionsgate is now giving “The Whole Bloody Affair” a proper release in theaters for the first time since it played Cannes in 2006. “Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair” will open in theaters from Lionsgate on December 5, 2025.
The 258-minute long epic will be screened in 70mm and 35mm in select markets, it has a 7½-minute anime sequence that was never in the originally released films, and it removes the cliffhanger ending from Vol. 1 and the recap that began Vol. 2. It’s one truly epic film that if it’s not the best film he’s ever made we wrote is “certainly the most movie” ever made.
“I wrote and directed it as one movie — and I’m so glad to give the fans the chance to see it as one movie,” Tarantino said in a statement. “The best way to see ‘Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair’ is at a movie theater in glorious 70mm or 35mm. Blood and guts on a big screen in all its glory!”
When seeing it all as one piece, we wrote that “Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair” plays like Sergio Leone classics like “Once Upon a Time in the West” or “Once Upon a Time in America” that combine elements of Hollywood genre movies but breathe new life into them.
“While the concept is straightforward, the execution is remarkably complex. Tarantino spends over four hours teasing out every narrative, stylistic, and philosophical possibility raised by the premise before he strips it all back down again at the end and reveals the movie was about something simple — a mother getting back to her daughter — after all,” IndieWire’s review of “The Whole Bloody Affair” reads.
If you haven’t seen “Kill Bill,” it tells the story of The Bride (Uma Thurman), an assassin left for dead at her wedding who seeks revenge on her former boss and lover and needs to hunt down the four remaining members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. The film stars Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Gordon Liu, Michael Parks, and David Carradine as “Bill.” The film is produced by Lawrence Bender, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, based on the character of “The Bride” created by Q&U.
The release of “The Whole Bloody Affair” comes as we await more news of whatever Tarantino’s 10th feature film — and presumably last — will be. We will be getting more of Brad Pitt’s Cliff Booth in a “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood” film that David Fincher is directing based on Tarantino’s script. That movie will be released by Netflix. And we’re also soon getting a book series that will explore the “making of” behind all of Tarantino’s movies. He also in a recent podcast interview explained why he moved on from what was meant to be his 10th film, “The Movie Critic.”
Lionsgate also manages the library distribution rights to many of Tarantino’s other films, so it’s possible we get other special re-releases in the future. Those include “Reservoir Dogs,” “Jackie Brown,” “Inglourious Basterds,” “Django Unchained,” “The Hateful Eight,” and “Death Proof.”