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Pulp Fiction (1994)

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Average Rating: 9/10
Reviews Counted: 57
Fresh: 54 | Rotten: 3

One of the most influential films of the 1990s, Pulp Fiction is a delirious post-modern mix of neo-noir thrills, pitch-black humor, and pop-culture touchstones.

Average Rating: 8.5/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 1

One of the most influential films of the 1990s, Pulp Fiction is a delirious post-modern mix of neo-noir thrills, pitch-black humor, and pop-culture touchstones.

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Outrageously violent, time-twisting, and in love with language, Pulp Fiction was widely considered the most influential American movie of the 1990s. Director and co-screenwriter Quentin Tarantino synthesized such seemingly disparate traditions as the syncopated language of David Mamet; the serious violence of American gangster movies, crime movies, and films noirs mixed up with the wacky violence of cartoons, video games, and Japanese animation; and the fragmented story-telling structures of

R, 2 hr. 40 min.

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Directed By: Quentin Tarantino

Written By: Quentin Tarantino

In Theaters: Sep 23, 1994 Wide

On DVD: May 19, 1998

Miramax Films

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Cast

John Travolta
Vincent Vega
Samuel L. Jackson
Jules Winnfield
Uma Thurman
Mia Wallace
Harvey Keitel
The Wolf
Bruce Willis
Butch Coolidge
Tim Roth
Pumpkin
Amanda Plummer
Honey Bunny
Ving Rhames
Marsellus Wallace
Eric Stoltz
Lance
Rosanna Arquette
Jody
Christopher Walken
Capt. Koons
Maria de Medeiros
Fabienne
Frank Whaley
Brett
Quentin Tarantino
Jimmie Dimmick
Angela Jones
Esmeralda Villa Lobos
Peter Greene
Zed
Alexis Arquette
Fourth Man
Don Blakely
Wilson's Trainer
Steve Buscemi
Buddy Holly look-alike
Paul Calderon
Paul
Eric Clark
James Dean look-alike
Bronagh Gallagher
Trudy
Kathy Griffin
Herself
Susan Griffiths
Marilyn Monroe look-ali...
Brenda Hillhouse
Butch's Mother
Linda Kaye
Shot Woman
Karen Maruyama
Gawker
Dick Miller
Monster Joe
Joseph Pilato
Dean Martin look-alike
Robert Ruth
Sportscaster
Emil Sitka
"Hold hands you love bi...
Burr Steers
Roger
Julia Sweeney
Raquel
Rich Turner
Sportscaster
Venessia Valentino
Pedestrian/Bonnie
Duane Whitaker
Maynard
Lawrence Bender
Long Hair Yuppie Scum
Stephen Hibbert
The Gimp
Lorelei Leslie
Mamie Van Doren look-al...
Phil LaMarr
Marvin
Michael Gilden

Critic Reviews for Pulp Fiction

All Critics (57) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (64) | Rotten (3) | DVD (53)

Tarantino's dialogue, with its densely propulsive, almost lawyerly fervor, its peppery comic blend of literacy and funk, has more snap and fight than most directors' action scenes.

September 7, 2011 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

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Tarantino's guilty secret, which the international critics should have noticed, is that his films are cultural hybrids.

March 29, 2011 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine

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Richard Corliss

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

The way that this picture has been so widely ravened up and drooled over verges on the disgusting. Pulp Fiction nourishes, abets, cultural slumming.

May 27, 2009 Full Review Source: New Republic

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Stanley Kauffmann

New Republic

Top Critic

A spectacularly entertaining piece of pop culture.

March 13, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety

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Todd McCarthy

Variety

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.

March 13, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

One of the coolest things about Pulp Fiction is its many links to other pleasures.

February 27, 2007 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

Some of its strengths still impress. There's the trivial-turned-menacing, the gangster-gone-poppy, and the various sadnesses, poignancies, and tragic pointlessnesses that seep out of the best noirs.

May 10, 2012 Full Review Source: Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

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Brian Gibson

Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

Seventeen years on, Pulp Fiction still works like a motherfucker

November 13, 2011 Full Review Source: Film Freak Central

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Walter Chaw

Film Freak Central

The most influential film of the 1990s makes its highly anticipated bow on Blu-ray, and Lionsgate rises to the occasion with this spectacular transfer and strong supplemental material.

October 20, 2011 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Chris Cabin

Slant Magazine

A balls-out postmodern comedy par excellence. It's a Royale with Cheese. [Blu-ray]

October 19, 2011 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews

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Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews Source: Groucho Reviews

Look deeply enough, and the universe emerges in full.

April 28, 2011 Full Review Source: Projection Booth

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Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

[VIDEO] After reinventing American cinema with his thrilling first film "Reservoir Dogs," Quentin Tarantino delivered an even better one, "Pulp Fiction."

January 29, 2011 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

A modern classic, more memorable than the 1970s flicks that inspired it.

September 16, 2009 Full Review Source: Film4

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Film4

Samuel L. Jackson's wallet from the film is sitting in my back pocket right now. Enough said.

August 2, 2008 Comments (9)

Kevin McCarthy

BDK Reviews

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.

May 19, 2008 Comment

Beth Accomando

KPBS.org

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.

September 12, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

It's the way Tarantino embellishes and, finally, interlinks these old chestnuts that makes the film alternately exhilarating and frustrating.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Geoff Andrew

Time Out

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.

January 27, 2006 Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star

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Phil Villarreal

Arizona Daily Star

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Supremely cool and stuffed with great dialogue, Pulp Fiction is by far my all-time favourite Tarantino flick. Where most films have one or maybe two scenes worth adding to memory, this is filled to the brim with outrageously fun and instantly quotable moments. From the priceless "Butch-picks-a-weapon-scene"

April 8, 2007

Mike S

Super Reviewer

The masterpiece by Quentin Tarantino is so good it's an important cultural artifact. Pulp Fiction is one of the most inspiring films released in the 1990's partly due to it's jaw dropping style and it's unexpected depth in substance. It also assembles in my opinion, one of the greatest ensemble casts ever. Featuring

April 29, 2012

Directors Cat

Super Reviewer

Pulp Fiction Quotes

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1. The Wolf: Well, let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet.
– Submitted by Amir V (10 days ago)
1. Jules Winnfield: Well I'm a mushroom cloud laying motherfucker, motherfucker! Every time my fingers touch brain, I'm superfly TNT. I'm the Guns of the Navarone. In fact what the fuck am I doing in the back!? You're the motherfucker that should be on brain detail!
– Submitted by MICHAEL S (15 days ago)
1. Jules Winnfield: Does he look like a bitch?
– Submitted by Rodrigo G (37 days ago)
1. Jimmie Dimmick: Wow, you would never think it's the same car!
2. The Wolf: Okay, lets not start sucking each other's dick just yet.
– Submitted by Chris C (40 days ago)
1. Jimmie Dimmick: You don't have to tell me how good my coffee is okay, I'm the one who buys it, I know how good it is...
– Submitted by Chris C (40 days ago)

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