95
Pulp Fiction review
Three stories, shuffled, told with a confidence that independent film had not seen before. The structure is the innovation; the dialogue is the delive…
★★★★½ 4.8/5
Quentin Tarantino
Tarantino emerged from video-store culture to become the defining American independent filmmaker of the 1990s. His work is built on encyclopaedic reference, extended dialogue sequences, chaptered structures, and an insistence on 35mm and practical production. He has stated an intention to retire after ten features.
Signature and approach
- Chaptered and non-linear structures
- Extended dialogue as characterisation
- Encyclopaedic genre reference
- Violence presented with tonal contrast
- 1Films reviewed
- 95.0Average score
- 1963Born
- AmericanNationality
Films by Quentin Tarantino in our collection
Ordered by release date. Every entry links to the full review.
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Filmography reviewed
Year, genre, runtime and score for each film.
| Film | Year | Genre | Runtime | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Crime | 154 min | 95 |
Reading Quentin Tarantino in context
This page collects every film by Quentin Tarantino that we have reviewed in full, along with our average score across that body of work. It is not a complete filmography: our library is curated, and we only list films we have written about at length.
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