If I were to list the "next 10", Pulp Fiction would be on it, so there's nothing that I dislike about it. I would say that Reservoir Dogs was perhaps, as you said, a bit too absorbed with the pop culture refs. As for Jackie Brown, I love its specificity with the performances, the language, the milieu... etc. It's very low-key compared to his other films, and the only one that doesn't feature the "movie trailer" moments. In that film, every nuance, gesture, dialogue hover around like smoke, gradually dissipating as if a magician was at work. (Kill Bill 2 had moments where Tarantino slowed down in a similar fashion, the reason why I prefer it to the first part.)