25 Definitively Best Movies EVER (According To Critics AND Fans)

12. Pulp Fiction (1994)

Score: 92

There are some who will tell you that Quentin Tarantino is not fit to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the greatest directors of all time - that he's too much of a magpie and too much of a provocateur to really qualify. Such accusations miss the fact that the same could be said of Steven Spielberg or Alfred Hitchcock: great film-makers make you feel and they tend to know a thing or two about borrowing from other art.

And for anyone who doesn't believe in his ability as a story-teller, go and watch Jackie Brown, Reservoir Dogs and, in particular, Pulp Fiction and eat your words. The latter is an exhilarating exercise in character-building and story-telling, weaving an a-linear narrative that somehow makes heroes out of grotesques and monster and which single-handedly catapulted John Travolta back into the realms of cool. Plus, it made Samuel L Jackson the badass icon he's been known as since.

Rotten Tomatoes: 94 Audience: 96 IMDB: 89 Letterboxd: 88 Metascore: 94