Vern Perry Orange County Register Feb 4, 2026

A brilliant piece of filmmaking that folds back on itself like a cleverly crafted piece of origami.

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Nov 22, 2025 4/4

Quentin Tarantino’s cause celebre immediately became a direct challenge to creative complacency.

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Dan Buffa Ramble On With Buffa (Substack) Dec 29, 2024

From the riveting split story lines and hyper-profanity to the quotable dialogue and shocking action, Tarantino's movie reverberated then and still does to this day.

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M.N. Miller FandomWire Dec 12, 2024 10/10

Super cool, totally thrilling, and a startling blend of homage and originality that has not been matched since—once you see it, you’ll never view cinema the same way again.

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Grant Hermanns Screen Rant Sep 20, 2024 5/5

Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction not only remains his best movie, but is an exhilarating crime saga full of great performances and energetic writing.

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Kevin Maher The Times (UK) Aug 22, 2024 5/5

... A controversial yet award-worthy combination of gorgeous dialogue, genre-literacy, guns and gore.

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Alan French Sunshine State Cineplex Jun 21, 2024 10/10

Pulp Fiction may not be perfect (the Butch sequence struggles to reach the heights of the others). However, its highs are among the very best in cinema history.

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Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand Apr 6, 2024

... a film that twists and turns and double backs on itself with the sheer delight of a narrative magician.

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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Mar 1, 2024 4/4

Quentin Tarantino is the Jerry Lee Lewis of cinema, a pounding performer who doesn't care if he tears up the piano, as long as everybody is rocking.

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Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle Mar 1, 2024 4.5/5

Rarely have I left a movie theatre more thrilled or invigorated as I did after leaving Pulp Fiction.

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Tom Long Santa Cruz Sentinel Mar 1, 2024 A+

There is a fine madness to writer/director/actor Quentin Tarantino's latest wonderwork, Pulp Fiction, which is certainly one of the most exciting films of the past 20 years and easily the most important film of 1994.

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Peter Keough Boston Phoenix Mar 1, 2024

Unlike his first film, Reservoir Dogs, whose genius lay in its ability to shock and dazzle, Pulp Fiction penetrates the glib surface of style, allusion, and machismo to the murky meaning of these things.

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Peter Travers Rolling Stone Mar 1, 2024

There's a special kick that comes from watching something this thrillingly alive.

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Eleanor Ringel Cater Atlanta Journal-Constitution Mar 1, 2024

The actors know they've got a good thing and, echoing Tarantino's boldness and resourcefulness, they give it everything they've got.

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Elizabeth Pincus L.A. Weekly Mar 1, 2024

Like its source material, Pulp Fiction is comic and grim, sun-soaked and shadowy, tender and blunt. A pop-drenched dream reel, the film is both a reverential nod to the power of words and a stunning entertainment that more than lives up to its hype.

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Desson Thomson Washington Post Mar 1, 2024

Brilliant and brutal, funny and exhilarating, jaw-droppingly cruel and disarmingly sweet.

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Marylynn Uricchio Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Mar 1, 2024 4/4

A truly great soundtrack keeps the tone hip and even steals a scene or two. Not that Tarantino doesn't have plenty to spare. Pulp Fiction is riveting filmmaking funny, visceral, stylish and so unabashedly original that you never want it to end.

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Dolores Barclay Associated Press Mar 1, 2024

Unlike too many movies with annoying soundtracks that make up for inferior filmmaking, Tarantino allows natural sounds to slip in -- traffic utensils and other everyday background noises. It allows for more drama and a greater buildup of tension.

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Gene Siskel Chicago Tribune Mar 1, 2024 4/4

In between the violence, which does get hard R-rated extreme, the real pleasure of Pulp Fiction is listening to these folks talk. If you smile at David Mamet's dialogue, you'll laugh out loud at the words of Quentin Tarantino.

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Steve Persall Tampa Bay Times Mar 1, 2024 A+

Nothing you've ever seen on screen fully prepares you for the audacious ferocity of Quentin Tarantino's pitch-black comedy Pulp Fiction.

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