Grindhouse Reviews
TheShiznit.co.uk
Not just a movie but an event in its own right, Grindhouse is simply unmissable in its complete form.
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| Original Score: 5/5
ComingSoon.net
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.
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| Original Score: 7.5/10
IGN DVD
Grindhouse is a great experience, packed with fun, thrills, chills and gore galore.
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| Original Score: 8/10
DCist
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.
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| Original Score: 7.5/10
The Scorecard Review
This is a movie theater experience. It needs to be seen at night, with a big screen and lots of friends.
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| Original Score: 9/10
ESplatter
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.
ESplatter
Hopefully Rodriguez and Tarantino will make more of these.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Beyond Hollywood
A mediocre attempt to play with exploitation fire without getting burned. A pair of anti-septic fakes that miss the entire point of exploitation.
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3-D Naughtiness! Perverts in Revolt! Sinful Dwarfs! And Even a Movie Review, Why Not?
BrandonFibbs.com
Has Tarantino ever made a singularly authentic, sincere, innovative frame of film in his entire life?
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| Original Score: 5/10
eFilmCritic.com
The trailers for grindhouse movies were always better than the films themselves. Sadly, the same is true of Grindhouse.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
Each film would have fared better as a 15-minute short.
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| Original Score: C
Top CriticGrindhouse 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.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Antagony & Ecstasy
It is a movie about watching itself, and that is both solipsistic and pure genius.
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| Original Score: 10/10
Shadows on the Wall
[In Death Proof, Tarantino] gleefully subverts the genre to keep us thoroughly entertained.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cinema Crazed
Thank you Tarantino, thank you Rodriguez, it was a pleasure...
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| Original Score: 4/4
Projection Booth
While I believe Tarantino to be a far greater artist when it comes to lining his cinematic and pop culture channelings with elements of profundity, Rodriguez is something of a master at to-the-point entertainment.
Cinema Sight
An intriguing package of faux trailers and senseless violence. Rarely is there a film that is so unquestionably enjoyable. Might give the '70s grind house flicks a good name.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
The numbness of sitting through nearly two hours of dreck isn't all that kills the momentum going in to Death Proof.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4
