Anthony Lane of The New Yorker said it best: "Everybody wants to work with Quentin Tarantino; for this bright and startling new picture, his first since Reservoir Dogs, he mustered an amazing crew that includes Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel, Christopher Walken, Bruce Willis -- and best of all -- John Travolta.  They parade through two and a half hours of complicated cross weaving, Los Angeles plots, some of which are more gripping than others; the talk is dirty and funny, the violence always waiting around the next corner. Watching the result is like going to a long, loud party.  The next day it seems like a dream: the film attacks your sense and gives you almost nothing to remember it by, let alone to nourish you.  It had to happen, and Tarantino is the man to deliver it: cinema as fast food.  Rated R, 153 min.

Little known fact: The Rose set a record for walk-outs when we showed Pulp Fiction, and no other movie since then ('94) has even come close to matching that record: 36