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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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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
Sep 23, 1994 Wide
May 19, 1998
Miramax Films
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.
Tarantino's guilty secret, which the international critics should have noticed, is that his films are cultural hybrids.
The way that this picture has been so widely ravened up and drooled over verges on the disgusting. Pulp Fiction nourishes, abets, cultural slumming.
A spectacularly entertaining piece of pop culture.
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.
One of the coolest things about Pulp Fiction is its many links to other pleasures.
Top CriticSome 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.
Seventeen years on, Pulp Fiction still works like a motherfucker
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.
A balls-out postmodern comedy par excellence. It's a Royale with Cheese. [Blu-ray]
Look deeply enough, and the universe emerges in full.
[VIDEO] After reinventing American cinema with his thrilling first film "Reservoir Dogs," Quentin Tarantino delivered an even better one, "Pulp Fiction."
A modern classic, more memorable than the 1970s flicks that inspired it.
Samuel L. Jackson's wallet from the film is sitting in my back pocket right now. Enough said.
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.
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.
It's the way Tarantino embellishes and, finally, interlinks these old chestnuts that makes the film alternately exhilarating and frustrating.
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.
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, 2007Super 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
Super Reviewer
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