Grindhouse (2007)

All Critics (196) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (158) | Rotten (33) | DVD (3)

Grindhouse is both impressive and disappointing. From a technical and craft point of view it is first-rate; from its standing in the canon of the two directors, it is minor.

October 26, 2007 Full Review | Comments (17)

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

The whole thing runs a bit over three hours, goes by swiftly, contains countless film references and includes hilarious fake trailers.

April 9, 2007 Full Review | Comment

Joe Morgenstern

Wall Street Journal

Top Critic

A rowdy jolt of quasi-nostalgic escapism.

April 9, 2007 Full Review | Comment

Claudia Puig

USA Today

Top Critic

A weaponized adrenaline rush.

April 9, 2007 Full Review | Comment

Bruce Newman

San Jose Mercury News

Top Critic

RR and QT do an excellent job of simulating the content of grindhouse offerings, but they don't simulate the experience or the giddy kick.

April 9, 2007 Full Review | Comment

Carrie Rickey

Philadelphia Inquirer

Top Critic

Go, I say, and enjoy.

April 9, 2007 Full Review | Comment

Jack Mathews

New York Daily News

Top Critic

A paean to the exploitation films of the 70s, built more for titillation than story-telling, Grindhouse - especially the Rodriguez sequence - is nearly impossibly silly, not necessarily a bad thing, and is certainly not for everyone.

March 22, 2011 Full Review | Comment

Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

Grindhouse is a great experience, packed with fun, thrills, chills and gore galore.

October 21, 2010 Full Review | Comment

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

Delivers all the trashy, seat-squirming, eye-covering moments your fiercely racing heart craves. Forget about "guilty pleasures." Call it a pleasure, and leave it at that.

June 9, 2010 Full Review | Comment

Ian Buckwalter

DCist

Half smirk, half transcendence

August 27, 2009 Full Review | Comment

Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

This is a movie theater experience. It needs to be seen at night, with a big screen and lots of friends.

September 4, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Jeff Bayer

The Scorecard Review

As amusing as the concept is, the actual result is a considerable disappointment - a high-tech forgery that lacks the disreputable charm of its models, which were made without the self-conscious affectation on display here.

July 11, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Steve Biodrowski

ESplatter

Hopefully Rodriguez and Tarantino will make more of these.

June 18, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Lucius Gore

ESplatter

A mediocre attempt to play with exploitation fire without getting burned. A pair of anti-septic fakes that miss the entire point of exploitation.

April 18, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Brian Holcomb

Beyond Hollywood

3-D Naughtiness! Perverts in Revolt! Sinful Dwarfs! And Even a Movie Review, Why Not?

April 8, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Shane Burridge

rec.arts.movies.reviews

Has Tarantino ever made a singularly authentic, sincere, innovative frame of film in his entire life?

February 28, 2008 Full Review | Comments (8)

Brandon Fibbs

BrandonFibbs.com

The trailers for grindhouse movies were always better than the films themselves. Sadly, the same is true of Grindhouse.

February 14, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

Each film would have fared better as a 15-minute short.

January 4, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Bruce Bennett

Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

It is a movie about watching itself, and that is both solipsistic and pure genius.

September 20, 2007 Full Review | Comment

Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

[In Death Proof, Tarantino] gleefully subverts the genre to keep us thoroughly entertained.

July 17, 2007 Full Review | Comment

Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

• 1. Stunt Man Mike (Death Proof): [as he drives] Hey, Pam, remember when I said this car was death proof? Well, that wasn't a lie. This car is 100% death proof.
  – Submitted by Baurushan J (4 months ago)
• 1. Stunt Man Mike (Death Proof): Ladies! That was fun! Adios! [gets shot]
  – Submitted by Baurushan J (4 months ago)
• 1. Lee: I can't belive a fucking Circle A clerk carries Italian Vogue.
  2. Abernathy (Death Proof): It doesn't. It's his own personal copy. He'll let it go for 27 bucks.
  3. Lee: [scoffs] 27 bucks?
  4. Abernathy (Death Proof): What the fuck do you care? We're talking about fucking per diem here. We found an issue of Italian Vogue in Lebanon, Tennessee. We're lucky he's not asking for fuckin' Krugerrands. I'm getting it, and we're splitting it three ways.
  5. Lee: What? Me, you, and Kim?
  6. Abernathy (Death Proof): No. Kim doesn't give a shit about Italian Vogue. But Brandy will come in with us, and if she won't, Tyson, her assistant, will.
  7. Lee: Okay, but if anyone tears out any sheets that I want, you gotta make color Xerox copies of those pages, and I'm not talkin' fuckin' Kinko's here either. You take it to the art department and have them do it fucking right.
  – Submitted by Gavin S (6 months ago)
• 1. Lee: [to Zoë] I'm sorry, but what is 'home'? Is that Australia, right?
  2. Zoe (Death Proof): [seemingly offended] What do you mean by that, mate?
  3. Abernathy (Death Proof): Zoë's from New Zealand. And you never, I repeat, NEVER, call a Kiwi an Aussie.
  4. Kim (Death Proof): Not unless you wanna get your ass kicked.
  5. Lee: I'm so sorry, I really am.
  6. Zoe (Death Proof): [Abby, Zoë and Kim laugh] We're just taking the piss out of you, mate!
  – Submitted by Gavin S (6 months ago)
• 1. Zoe (Death Proof): So let's hear it ladies. Set romances, who's gettin' it off?
  2. Kim (Death Proof): That would be Lee and Toolbox.
  3. Zoe (Death Proof): Oh, Toolbox. Name sounds promising.
  4. Abernathy (Death Proof): He's a grip.
  5. Lee: What he is, is a pervert.
  6. Zoe (Death Proof): Wow, he just keeps sounding better and better. What's his perversion?
  7. Lee: He likes to watch me pee.
  8. Kim (Death Proof): Haha! Lee is sittin' on a toilet and Toolbox is watching her pee, P-I-S-S-I-N-G.
  – Submitted by Gavin S (6 months ago)