Critics' Pics: Selections from AFI and Sight & Sound
Tarantino's breakout feature and the '90s indie film that spawned a generation of film and filmmakers, experience Pulp Fiction's mosaic narrative of L.A. crime and intrigue on the big screen. We love it, Honey Bunny.
1990s indie film can be divided into two phases: before Pulp Fiction and after Pulp Fiction. Tarantino's hyper-verbose, hyper-violent, ultra-hip film resurrected the career of John Travolta, made Samuel L. Jackson a superstar, and spawned a generation of homages and imitations. Weaving together six semi-related storylines of crime in L.A.'s underworld, it remains an unforgettable watch even decades later. Boasting an all-star cast alongside Travolta and Jackson, including Uma Thurman, Ving Rhames, Bruce Willis, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, and Amanda Plummer, and an absolutely killer soundtrack. [154 min; crime, drama; English, Spanish, and French with English subtitles]
"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." — Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
"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." — Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"The best movie I've ever seen." — 90% of all 15 to 45-year-olds in 1994
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