It's the way Tarantino embellishes and, finally, interlinks these old chestnuts that makes the film alternately exhilarating and frustrating.
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06/24/06
Pulp Fiction (1994)
96 %
Reviews Counted: 47 Fresh: 45 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 9/10
Rated: 18
Runtime: 2 hrs 46 mins
Theatrical Release: 00-00-0000
Synopsis: Writer-director Quentin Tarantino revisits the seedier side of Los Angeles--following 1992's RESERVOIR DOGS--with this funny, violent, tongue-in-cheek tribute to the less "classic" side of filmmaking--the potboilers and capers, the Blaxploitation flicks and gangster movies. The... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Screenwriter: Quentin Tarantino
Story: Roger Avary, Quentin Tarantino
Producer: Lawrence Bender
Screenwriter: Quentin Tarantino
Story: Roger Avary, Quentin Tarantino
Producer: Lawrence Bender
Reviews
Top Critic
It's hard to over sell a movie that is so supremely confident in writing and direction.
04/17/01
Top Critic
Brilliantly written and unfathomably cool, this would make a good case for most quotable crime movie of all time.
01/01/00
Top Critic
But what makes the film such wicked fun is the way Tarantino delivers the familiar with a twist. He continually prepares us for one thing and then delivers another.
05/19/08
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03/31/08
Top Critic
The overall project is evident: to evict real life and real people from the art film and replace them with generic teases and assorted hommages. Don't expect any of the life experiences of the old movie sources to leak through.
03/13/07
One of the coolest things about Pulp Fiction is its many links to other pleasures.
02/27/07
Tarantino shows penchant for the rhythm of words--the banter has the drollery of gangland Samuel Beckett--and he's also good at taking seemingly routine situations and giving them a sudden vertiginous twist, such as the farcical drug overdoze scene.
09/12/06
In most cases, the three-act, A-to-B-to-C film formula works just fine. But the letter Q makes the other letters obsolete.
01/27/06
It can be a difficult, rattling experience, but this reviewer has found its rewards to vastly outweigh its weaknesses.
01/15/05
There’s cleverness at work...but Tarantino’s 154-minute film rambles with nihilist fantasy and pop in-jokes.
04/16/04
Without its commitment to an idea of salvation, Pulp Fiction would be little more than a terrific parlor trick; with it, it's something far richer and more haunting.
07/30/03
A triumphant, cleverly disorienting journey through a demimonde that springs entirely from Mr. Tarantino's ripe imagination, a landscape of danger, shock, hilarity and vibrant local color.
05/20/03
Top Critic
This fictional world, though rendered imaginatively, can't sustain the movie.
05/20/03
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