Every Quentin Tarantino Movie, Ranked

Tarantino's second feature is a triptych of three crime shorts that remains to this day the director's best film in the eyes of many fans as well as the best-reviewed release in his filmography. For better and worse, Pulp Fiction revived the flagging career of star John Travolta, but it also made Tarantino himself a star. The film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes—which gave distributor Miramax the confidence to open the indie film in wide release, which paid off handsomely—and collected seven Oscar nominations, including best picture and best screenplay (the latter becoming Tarantino's first Oscar win, shared by Roger Avary).

“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