The Sadistic Vision of “The Hateful Eight”

Quentin Tarantino directs Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Samuel L. Jackson.Illustration by Zohar Lazar Combine two films released on Christmas Day, Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight” and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “The Revenant,” and what have you got? Five hours and thirty-eight minutes of malice and mistrust, in which the characters—mostly men—are trapped in extreme weather cond