Jackie Brown - Tarantino's follow-up to Pulp Fiction, a slick crime movie adapted from the Elmore Leonard novel Rum Punch.
The plot follows Pam Grier's air hostess, the titular Jackie Brown, acting as a cash smuggler for Sam Jackson's illegal arms dealer. Brown is caught by Michael Keaton's ATF character, Ray Nicolette, on one such trip, setting in motion a triple-cross of Jackson and the ATF by Brown, aided by Robert Forster's bail bondsman.
The acting is fantastic throughout, Grier and Forster in particular showing why they are both criminally underrated actors who deserve better. Sam Jackson is as charismatic as he is ruthless as the main bad guy, and there are good supporting performances from Robert De Niro and Bridget Fonda.
While it appears generally not to be held in the same esteem as Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown is still a great film that deserves more credit than it gets. Probably what sets it apart from what came before, and after, is it's not particular visceral in anyway. There is violence, but it is quite muted for a Tarantino film, and that's no bad thing, because Jackie Brown doesn't need to be that movie.