Pulp Fiction (18)

The 1994 Palme D’or winning classic is a remarkable act of alchemy, winning over both arthouse and multiplex audiences like nothing else before it.

The film sports a complex interweaving of vignettes. Opening with a pair of cafe robbers (Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer), it quickly segues into our pair of “main” protagonists, hitmen Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules (Samuel L. Jackson), whose stories of death and violence wend throughout the story as they come to grips with what they do for a living. Simultaneously, Bruce Willis steps into the story as Butch Coolidge, a boxer who doesn’t throw a fight for Vincent and Jules’s boss Marsellus (Ving Rhames), which climaxes in an unforgettable tussle in a local store. Then there’s the film’s real star in Uma Thurman’s Mia Wallace.

The film can be poignant, disgusting, yet never boring or uninteresting, and more than thirty years later, there’s still nothing quite like it. Full of quotable lines that still permeate our lexicon to this day, Pulp Fiction is an infinitely rewatchable masterpiece. So don’t be a square, and catch this on the big screen.