SOURCE: "Hot Shot," in Times Literary Supplement, November 11, 1994, p. 26.

In the following review, Binyon offers favorable assessment of Pulp Fiction.

Quentin Tarantino's latest film, Pulp Fiction, opens and closes in a Los Angeles coffee shop. In the prologue, a young couple, Pumpkin (Tim Roth) and Honey Bunny (Amanda Plummer), are contemplating over breakfast a change in business methods: robbing coffee shops instead of liquor stores. Two and a half hours later, the epilogue returns to the same place at the same time. Drawing their 32s, Pumpkin and Honey Bunny leap on to the coffee-shop tables to put theory into practice. Within this circular frame three stories are loosely woven together; the narration glides from one to another, slips backwards and forwards in time. The stories are connected by the presence in each of a Mr Big of organized crime, Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames), a shadowy figure—for most...