Pulp Fiction (1994)

All Critics (59) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (66) | Rotten (3) | DVD (53)

If you smile at David Mamet's dialogue, you'll laugh out loud at the words of Quentin Tarantino.

January 16, 2013 Full Review

Gene Siskel

Chicago Tribune

Top Critic

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

Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

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

March 29, 2011 Full Review | Comments (4)

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 | Comments (158)

Stanley Kauffmann

The New Republic

Top Critic

A spectacularly entertaining piece of pop culture.

March 13, 2007 Full Review | Comment (1)

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

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

Its dedicated fan-base and the pop-culture reverberations that have flowed steadily from it, almost 20 years on, echo Tarantino's achievements with Pulp Fiction. Unassailable filmmaking.

October 16, 2012 Full Review

Patrick Kolan

Shotgun 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

Brian Gibson

Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

Seventeen years on, Pulp Fiction still works like a motherfucker

November 13, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

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

Chris Cabin

Slant Magazine

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

October 19, 2011 Full Review

Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews

Look deeply enough, and the universe emerges in full.

April 28, 2011 Full Review

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

Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

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

September 16, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Film4

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

August 2, 2008 | Comments (10)

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 (1)

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 | Comment (1)

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

• 1. Jules Winnfield: You ever read the Bible, Brett?
  2. Brett: Yes!
  3. Jules Winnfield: There's a passage that I got memorized, seems appropiate for this situation: Ezekiel 25,17. "The path of the righteous man is beset of all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil me. Blessed is he who, in the name of the charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
  – Submitted by Jean R (17 days ago)
• 1. Jules Winnfield: Oh, man, I will never forgive your ass for this shit. This is some fucked-up repugnant shit.
  2. Vincent Vega: Jules, did you ever hear the philosophy that once a man admits that he's wrong that he is immediately forgiven for all wrongdoings? Have you ever heard that?
  3. Jules Winnfield: Get the fuck out my face with that shit! The motherfucker that said that shit never had to pick up itty-bitty pieces of skull on account of your dumb ass.
  – Submitted by Eli T (43 days ago)
• 1. Jules Winnfield: Normally, both your asses would be dead as fucking fried chicken, but you happen to pull this shit while I'm in a transitional period so I don't wanna kill you, I wanna help you. But I can't give you this case, it don't belong to me. Besides, I've already been through too much shit this morning over this case to hand it over to your dumb ass.
  – Submitted by Eli T (43 days ago)
• 1. Jules Winnfield: Say 'what' again. Say 'what' again, I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say what one more Goddamn time!
  – Submitted by Eli T (43 days ago)
• 1. Jules Winnfield: Oh I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?
  – Submitted by Micah S (45 days ago)
• 1. Butch Coolidge: That's how you're gonna beat 'em, Butch. They keep underestimating you.
  – Submitted by Dutch E (57 days ago)