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58
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89
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91
Hurt Locker, The
89
Goodbye Solo
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Tulpan
87
Gomorrah
86
Seraphine
84
Summer Hours
83
U2 3D
83
Revanche
83
Tyson
82
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
82
Sugar
82
Hunger
82
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
81
Il Divo
81
Beaches of Agnes, The
80
Food, Inc.
80
Tokyo Sonata
79
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
78
Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story, The
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77
Every Little Step
77
Sin Nombre
75
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74
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74
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74
Two Lovers
74
Song of Sparrows, The
74
Lemon Tree
71
Pressure Cooker
71
Jerichow
70
Shall We Kiss?
70
Tony Manero
70
End of the Line, The
69
Valentino: The Last Emperor
69
Unmistaken Child
67
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67
Rudo y Cursi
67
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66
Adoration
66
Moon
65
Sex Positive
65
Departures
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Outrage
64
Examined Life
64
Throw Down Your Heart
64
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63
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63
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63
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63
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63
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62
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62
Not Forgotten
61
Sunshine Cleaning
60
Under Our Skin
59
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58
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58
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57
Away We Go
57
Merry Gentleman, The
57
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56
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56
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55
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54
Is Anybody There?
54
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54
Stoning of Soraya M., The
52
Quiet Chaos
50
Management
48
Alien Trespass
45
Whatever Works
42
Little Ashes
42
Tennessee
40
Limits of Control, The
40
Paris 36
38
Gigantic
36
Life is Hot in Cracktown
35
New York
28
Big Shot-Caller, The
28
Surveillance
22
What Goes Up
18
Downloading Nancy
16
I Hate Valentine's Day
xx
Call of the Wild
xx
Home
xx
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Pulp Fiction
Miramax Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R
Starring
John Travolta,
Samuel L. Jackson,
Uma Thurman,
Harvey Keitel,
Tim Roth,
Amanda Plummer,
Ving Rhames,
and
Eric Stoltz
Several inter-locking stories of crime and intrigue form a temporal mosaic set in the Los Angeles underworld.
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Quentin Tarantino (also stories)
Roger Avary (stories)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Quentin Tarantino
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: May 19, 1998
Video: March 18, 1997
Theatrical: October 14, 1994
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| RUNNING TIME: |
154 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Pulp Fiction isn't just funny. It's outrageously funny. [14 Oct 1994]
100
USA Today
Mike Clark
For a brutal black comedy about L.A. hitmen, Pulp Fiction bursts out of its binding with loopy delights. [14 Oct 1994]
100
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
It is an exhilaration from beginning to end. It's the movie equivalent of that rare sort of novel where you find yourself checking to see how many pages are left and hoping there are more, not fewer.
100
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Like "Citizen Kane," Pulp Fiction is constructed in such a nonlinear way that you could see it a dozen times and not be able to remember what comes next.
100
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
With this film, every layer that you peel away leads to something deeper and richer. Tarantino makes pictures for movie-lovers, and Pulp Fiction is a near-masterpiece.
100
Rolling Stone
Staff (Not Credited)
The new King Kong of crime movies...Ferocious fun without a trace of caution, complacency or political correctness to inhibit its 154 deliciously lurid minutes.
100
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Pulp Fiction is at least three movies rolled into one, and they're all scintillating.
100
Variety
Staff (Not Credited)
A spectacularly entertaining piece of pop culture, Pulp Fiction is the "American Graffiti" of violent crime pictures.
100
Film Threat
Brad Laidman
The first masterwork of the post-modern pop culture generation...gets better with every viewing, and like good rock n' roll, needs to be played loud!
100
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Brilliant and brutal, funny and exhilarating, jaw-droppingly cruel and disarmingly sweet...To watch this movie (whose 2 1/2 hours speed by unnoticed) is to experience a near-assault of creativity.
100
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Tarantino's mock-tough narrative--which derives most of its titillation from farcical mayhem, drugs, deadpan macho monologues, evocations of anal penetration, and terms of racial abuse--resembles a wet dream for 14-year-old male closet queens (or, perhaps more accurately, the 14-year-old male closet queen in each of us), and his command of this smart-alecky mode is so sure that this nervy movie sparkles throughout with canny twists and turns.
100
Entertainment Weekly
Staff (Not Credited)
[Tarantino's] ability to take what seem like minor conversational themes and dovetail them onto later exchanges for maximum comic effect is close to genius. And the action can be literally heart-stopping.
100
The New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
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. Nothing is predictable or familiar within this irresistably bizarre world. You don't merely enter a theater to see Pulp Fiction; you go down a rabbit hole. [23 Sept 1994]
100
Time
Richard Corliss
It towers over the year's other movies as majestically and menacingly as a gang lord at a preschool. [10 Oct 1994]
100
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Very satisfying. Classic storytelling, modern techniques. And the images: This movie has embedded so many strange and new mental pictures in my head that I'm not able to shake free. Yet, neither would I want to be free.
100
Film.com
Lucy Mohl
There isn't a scene or a character in the film that plays just one way. Bloody bits turn hysterically funny, relief gets riddled with tension, and the lurking question marks are as intriguing as the story resolutions -- rec.arts.movies has been filled for months with theories about what was in the briefcase.
100
Empire
Philip Thomas
A scintillating piece of filmmaking, the kind of movie you look forward to seeing again even as you're watching it, and an extraordinary response to both the Dogs-Is-Overrated brigade and the He'll-Never-Top-His-Debut sceptics.
100
Wall Street Journal
Julie Salamon
The most imaginative movie to come along in ages. [18 Oct 1994, p.A14(W)]
90
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
The architecture of Pulp Fiction may look skewed and strained, but the decoration is a lot of fun. [10 Oct 1994, p.95]
90
Film.com
John Hartl
Quentin Tarantino's latest movie puts an epic spin on a favorite genre, taking it to time-tripping levels rarely tested by its forerunners.
80
TV Guide
Staff (Not credited)
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.
70
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
The experience overall is like laughing down a gun barrel, a little bit tiring, a lot sick and maybe far too perverse for less jaded moviegoers.
70
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
But the way that this picture has been so widely ravened up and drooled over verges on the disgusting. Pulp Fiction nourishes, abets, cultural slumming. [14 Nov 1994]
60
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
The writer-director appears to be straining for his effects. Some sequences, especially one involving bondage harnesses and homosexual rape, have the uncomfortable feeling of creative desperation, of someone who's afraid of losing his reputation scrambling for any way to offend sensibilities. [14 Oct 1994]
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