Pulp Fiction

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Pulp Fiction, UK poster artAn ecstatically entertaining piece of suave mockery that revels in every manner of pulp flagrancy – murder and betrayal, drugs, sex, and episodes of sardonically distanced sadomasochism – all told in three overlapping tales. Pulp Fiction is about Los Angeles crumbums – gangsters, a boxer ordered to take a dive, molls, a pair of sadists. The movie is less about crime than about what happens before and after crime – the shadows and echoes of an act rather than the act itself. It’s a very funky, American sort of pop masterpiece, improbable, uproarious, with bright colours and danger and blood right on the surface.
– David Denby, New York Magazine