From the riveting split story lines and hyper-profanity to the quotable dialogue and shocking action, Tarantino's movie reverberated then and still does to this day.

| Dec 29, 2024

Super cool, totally thrilling, and a startling blend of homage and originality that has not been matched since—once you see it, you’ll never view cinema the same way again.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Dec 12, 2024

Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction not only remains his best movie, but is an exhilarating crime saga full of great performances and energetic writing.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 20, 2024

... A controversial yet award-worthy combination of gorgeous dialogue, genre-literacy, guns and gore.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 22, 2024

Pulp Fiction may not be perfect (the Butch sequence struggles to reach the heights of the others). However, its highs are among the very best in cinema history.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jun 21, 2024

... a film that twists and turns and double backs on itself with the sheer delight of a narrative magician.

| Apr 6, 2024

Quentin Tarantino is the Jerry Lee Lewis of cinema, a pounding performer who doesn't care if he tears up the piano, as long as everybody is rocking.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 1, 2024

Rarely have I left a movie theatre more thrilled or invigorated as I did after leaving Pulp Fiction.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 1, 2024

There is a fine madness to writer/director/actor Quentin Tarantino's latest wonderwork, Pulp Fiction, which is certainly one of the most exciting films of the past 20 years and easily the most important film of 1994.

| Original Score: A+ | Mar 1, 2024

Unlike his first film, Reservoir Dogs, whose genius lay in its ability to shock and dazzle, Pulp Fiction penetrates the glib surface of style, allusion, and machismo to the murky meaning of these things.

| Mar 1, 2024

There's a special kick that comes from watching something this thrillingly alive.

| Mar 1, 2024

The actors know they've got a good thing and, echoing Tarantino's boldness and resourcefulness, they give it everything they've got.

| Mar 1, 2024

Like its source material, Pulp Fiction is comic and grim, sun-soaked and shadowy, tender and blunt. A pop-drenched dream reel, the film is both a reverential nod to the power of words and a stunning entertainment that more than lives up to its hype.

| Mar 1, 2024

Brilliant and brutal, funny and exhilarating, jaw-droppingly cruel and disarmingly sweet.

| Mar 1, 2024

A truly great soundtrack keeps the tone hip and even steals a scene or two. Not that Tarantino doesn't have plenty to spare. Pulp Fiction is riveting filmmaking funny, visceral, stylish and so unabashedly original that you never want it to end.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 1, 2024

Unlike too many movies with annoying soundtracks that make up for inferior filmmaking, Tarantino allows natural sounds to slip in -- traffic utensils and other everyday background noises. It allows for more drama and a greater buildup of tension.

| Mar 1, 2024

In between the violence, which does get hard R-rated extreme, the real pleasure of Pulp Fiction is listening to these folks talk. If you smile at David Mamet's dialogue, you'll laugh out loud at the words of Quentin Tarantino.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 1, 2024

Nothing you've ever seen on screen fully prepares you for the audacious ferocity of Quentin Tarantino's pitch-black comedy Pulp Fiction.

| Original Score: A+ | Mar 1, 2024

[Pulp Fiction] is a dazzling feat of writing. Lurid and unexpectedly hilarious, it's a deceptive piece of work that appears slight and simple on the surface but grows richer and more complex with hindsight.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 1, 2024

Quentin Tarantino, two movies into his directing career, brings to mind the early years of Godard and Truffaut, Coppola when he arrived with the Godfathers and Scorcese when he took to the streets of New York.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 1, 2024