Pulp Fiction Reviews

This movie gets its charge not from action pyrotechnics but from its electric barrage of language, wisecracks and dialogue, from the mordant '70s classicism of its long-take camera style and its smart, offbeat, strangely sexy cast.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

The result, especially in the scenes involving Bruce Willis as a nervy boxer, can be long patches of dialogue that must have tickled Tarantino but will not necessarily resonate for anyone else.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The talk is dirty and funny, the violence always waiting just around the corner.

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Whether you call it razzmatazz, pizazz or sizzle, Pulp Fiction's got it, enough style for a dozen movies and, truth be told, enough story for five.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Pulp Fiction isn't the sleazy work of a shock artist giving us things no one else will put on film. This is the work of someone talented, smart and thrilled to be making movies, giving us things no one else can put on film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

At 153 minutes, the movie does occasionally flirt with tedium, but the risk is worth it: The whole is finally greater than the sum of its pulpy parts. What could have been an anything-goes pastiche has surprising rigor and narrative clarity.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction is a Saturday Night Fever dream: a hot, dense, wicked disco of tough-guy posturings, vivid dips of violence and literally unbelievable plot moves.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson are terrific as talkative hit men, and Bruce Willis is equally good as a boxer who refuses to throw a fight.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Clever and daring, this high-pitched film never falters. Pulp Fiction is simply masterful. It's also one of the few films this year that bears seeing twice for maximum pleasure.

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In terms of mood and style, it could be the most influential film to come along since Blue Velvet.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

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.

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Seventeen years on, Pulp Fiction still works like a motherfucker

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: A

Look deeply enough, and the universe emerges in full.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

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

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

Full Review | Original Score: A+

Just when you thought the last thing the world needed was another violent, self-conscious, hipster homage to film noir, along comes Tarantino to blow away your deja vu.

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