OPINION George Clooney is many things. A husband and father of twins. A director of nine films.

A human rights advocate and Democratic fundraiser. A gold-plated A-list celebrity you would still be unsurprised to find on the cover of GQ, Esquire. A movie star, though? Not any more.

Such – to Clooney’s outspoken annoyance – is the opinion of Quentin Tarantino, who co-starred with him at the very beginning of his film career in the vampire action-comedy From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), playing Clooney’s psychotic brother..