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“Obsession” is a pulpy, prodigious summer hit that checks boxes without posing any new questions.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

It doesn’t look particularly good, but for a pulpy, propulsive action series, it may have potential.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026

Written by Matthew Parkhill, with Guy Ritchie — who directed Robert Downey Jr. in two steroidal Holmes films — helming some episodes, it’s pulpy and nutty and preposterous, mostly in a good way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026

Snake is a wonderfully pulpy, instantly iconic creation, an outcast adventurer reeking of sweat and post-Vietnam cynicism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

Thousands of insects beat the air to a pulpy soup of animal panic.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

If the tone in this 1950s-set romantic drama is more genteel than in the Hitchcockian, far pulpier “Eileen,” they have many similarities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2023

Lin would also wholeheartedly embrace the pulpier aspects of Indiana Jones and could be counted on to deliver something fun and fast-paced.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2020

“Melodrama” bristles with pulpy romance and pulpier romantic disaster, rendered by a performer not content with the usual language they inspire.

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2017

He likes to experiment with writing styles and readers may have to pause and think more than they do with pulpier fare.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 16, 2016

Hard-rinded himself, but not without a generous juice within, he would have found it hard to believe that pulpier fruits existed, with a stone inside he would but crack his teeth upon.

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver

This textured NYC thriller has the pulpiest of set-ups: a young Chinese girl is lost and alone on the streets, pursued by the Triads and crooked cops.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2019

But “Battlefield Earth” is also an incredibly exciting book, pulp of the pulpiest order.

From Salon ● May 24, 2012