Garçon Means Boy: The 10 Best Films Of The Nineties

2. Pulp Fiction (1994) (Dir. Quentin Tarantino)

Almost twenty years later and Pulp Fiction is still the coolest film ever made. From the moment we first meet two of his fast-talking, caution-to-the-wind characters looking to hold up a diner, we’re completely absorbed in the world laid out before us. This is the one that made pop cultural references into high art, after all, and nobody (not even Tarantino himself) has since pulled off a brilliantly intricate platter of connected stories in quite the way he achieved here.

Taking its roots from classic “pulp” stories, the memorable scenes rack up one after another, evoking the works of Scorsese, Godard and an endless array of exploitation flicks that Tarantino so adores. Given that no scene in this movie isn’t worth discussing in some way, shape or form, its cultural legacy has proven righty huge. “Garçon means boy,” deadpans a waitress, correcting Tim Roth’s translative mistake during the opening. Yep: even Tarantino’s bit-parts get cool lines.