text: Fiction director Quentin Tarantino , debuting as a Broadway actor opposite Marisa Tomei , should be humiliated by his performance ( Vincent Canby , the New York Times ) . His faults are said to range from the small ( he can 't render accents ) to the large ( he exhibits the charisma of a week-old head of lettuce , says the New York Daily News ' Fintan O 'Toole ) .
  
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  Quentin Tarantino is a terrible actor .