Not quite.  What Kael did was literally ask for research from someone and never give them credit, passing it off as her own and even altering parts of the research to fit her conclusions.  Tarantino is greatly inspired by a wide range of films and many of his movies hem close to them, but there's always something…

Samuel L Jackson as Jay Sherman.  It stinks motherfucker!

Ugh god I hate Pauline Kael, a pretentious bomb thrower who plagiarized peoples works to make terrible arguments, her contributions to the argument of autier theory was good but overall I care not for her work.

It’s the reboot of The Critic we deserve.

You can definitely tell that the last two films Tarantino will have made are built for an audience of one: Him. If anybody else wants to pony up for a ticket, that’s gravy.

I promise you Tommy Lee Jones has no idea who Misha Collins is.

Not only that, but STEELE had been cancelled and Brosnan was theoretically free to do Bond. But the Bond folks’ interest in him lent him some “heat,” so the network un-cancelled STEELE and he was compelled to do another season before it was cancelled, again.

That he got to do several Bonds years later is a nice happy…

Which hurt quite a bit more than it sounds, as his wife (who’d been a Bond girl herself in For Your Eyes Only) had always thought he’d be great for the role, and this meant she didn’t live to see it.

Boy, she went Harrison Ford on this show in record time, didn’t she?

She’s not wrong about wanting to do film instead. They asked Pierce Brosnan to be James Bond when Roger Moore finally hung it up but he was committed to Remington Steele.

Well if nothing else, it took balls to fess up their mistake.

It’s times like these I recall Tracey Ullman’s Angela Merkel.

Was the cure real? Did they act against Ellie’s wishes? Was Joel justified? These questions all share the same answer: dear god please fucking kill me I can’t do this anymore.

Sometimes you get the shaft and are still left holding the bag.

You liberals are all the same, stop swinging so hard to the left.

Just as long as it doesn’t rub you the wrong way, I suppose  🧐 

I thought it was a rather limp response myself.

They thought long and hard about their response. Such upstanding folk.

If you read the actual article, his full quote was: