Pulp Fiction (1994)
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Reviews Counted:49
Fresh:46
Rotten:3
Average Rating:8.9/10
Synopsis: Writer-director Quentin Tarantino revisits the seedier side of Los Angeles--following 1992's RESERVOIR DOGS--with this funny, violent, tongue-in-cheek tribute to the less "classic" side of... [More]
Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Reviews for Pulp Fiction
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 5/5 |
A modern classic, more memorable than the 1970s flicks that inspired it. Full Review |
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The way that this picture has been so widely ravened up and drooled over verges on the disgusting. Pulp Fiction nourishes, abets, cultural slumming. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Samuel L. Jackson's wallet from the film is sitting in my back pocket right now. Enough said.
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10/10 |
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. Full Review |
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A spectacularly entertaining piece of pop culture. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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One of the coolest things about Pulp Fiction is its many links to other pleasures. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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It's the way Tarantino embellishes and, finally, interlinks these old chestnuts that makes the film alternately exhilarating and frustrating. Full Review |
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4/4 |
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. Full Review |
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4/4 |
A devilishly lurid blast of great entertainment. Ultra-violent and wickedly funny.
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Ce film représente le summum de la carrière de Tarantino Full Review |
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It can be a difficult, rattling experience, but this reviewer has found its rewards to vastly outweigh its weaknesses. Full Review |
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There’s cleverness at work...but Tarantino’s 154-minute film rambles with nihilist fantasy and pop in-jokes. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Pulp Fiction is the best film of 1994, and of this decade. Full Review |
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4/4 |
The most original and satisfying film of the year. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Without its commitment to an idea of salvation, Pulp Fiction would be little more than a terrific parlor trick; with it, it's something far richer and more haunting. Full Review |
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5/5 |
A triumphant, cleverly disorienting journey through a demimonde that springs entirely from Mr. Tarantino's ripe imagination, a landscape of danger, shock, hilarity and vibrant local color. Full Review |
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2/4 |
This fictional world, though rendered imaginatively, can't sustain the movie. Full Review |
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4/4 |
This film is a conceptual tour-de-force. Full Review |
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