Pulp Fiction Reviews
Boulder Weekly
There's cleverness at work...but Tarantino's 154-minute film rambles with nihilist fantasy and pop in-jokes.
Palo Alto Weekly
This fictional world, though rendered imaginatively, can't sustain the movie.
| Original Score: 2/4
Top CriticThe way that this picture has been so widely ravened up and drooled over verges on the disgusting. Pulp Fiction nourishes, abets, cultural slumming.
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.
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| Original Score: 2/5
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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.
The movie resurrects not only an aging genre but also a few careers.
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| Original Score: 4/4
All the details are executed to perfection. Ironies abound in the smallest situations.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Arizona Daily Star
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.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Shotgun 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.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Baltimore Sun
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.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
BDK Reviews
Samuel L. Jackson's wallet from the film is sitting in my back pocket right now. Enough said.
| Original Score: 5/5
A spectacularly entertaining piece of pop culture.
KPBS.org
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.
| Original Score: 10/10
rec.arts.movies.reviews
A weird collection of inter-connected crime stories peopled by a weirder collection of thugs than Damon Runyan could have imagined on drugs. This is a film with comedy, heavy violence, some terrific dialogue, and a whole lot of entertainment.
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| Original Score: high +2 out of -4..+4
eFilmCritic.com
Pulp Fiction is great American entertainment, a stylish and foxy comedy of errors.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
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.
ColeSmithey.com
[VIDEO] After reinventing American cinema with his thrilling first film "Reservoir Dogs," Quentin Tarantino delivered an even better one, "Pulp Fiction."
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| Original Score: A+
Bullz-Eye.com
A brash, smart, wildly entertaining movie that will be oft imitated but never duplicated.
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| Original Score: 5/5
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.
Combustible Celluloid
How many movies have there been since which have copied this "formula" that are as fresh, energetic, alive and exciting?
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| Original Score: 4/4
