Tarantino writes ensembles like jazz charts: everyone gets a solo, and the movie lives or dies on whether those solos still feel sharp decades later. This isn't a ranking of films by Rotten Tomatoes. It's a walk through three casts using ActorRating's performance pages — the unit the site actually measures.
Start with Pulp Fiction, still the template. Then Django, where the dialogue weaponizes history. Then Hollywood, where the ensemble is about faded stardom and sudden violence. Score the people, not the poster.
#01
John Travolta in Pulp Fiction (1994)
Vincent Vega is cool as a lifestyle and incompetent as a professional — Travolta plays both without apology. The dance floor is iconic; the accidental shooting is the character. Soft charisma with a gun is still one of Tarantino's best contradictions.
