Trace Thurman Horror Queers Podcast Jan 14, 2025 4/5

Deliberately paced but never boring, Tarantino's half of the 'Grindhouse" double bill builds to an adrenaline-pumping climax.

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Joe Lipsett Horror Queers Podcast Jan 9, 2025 4/5

While not all of the female characters are fully fleshed out, the feminist message in Tarantino's car chase movie is impossible to overlook, especially with that satisfying and cathartic final freeze frame.

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Gayle Sequeira BFI Nov 17, 2024

The two halves of Death Proof each conclude with a superb car sequence: one a crash, the other a chase; one at night, the other at daytime; one sickening, the other supremely satisfying.

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John Brhel Vague Visages Jun 5, 2023

Death Proof is too singularly grindhouse, but it works as a fun, trashy flick, and a cool female empowerment story.

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Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies Aug 20, 2022 2/5

Despite it’s throwback cinema bells and whistles, a pretty good first half, and a really fun Kurt Russell performance, the movie ends up losing steam, and the second half can’t maintain the spark of the first 45 minutes or so.

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Niall Browne Movies in Focus Mar 17, 2021 3/5

Don't get me wrong, I didn't detest Death Proof, I just feel that it came up short on what was promised. Maybe the film was over hyped and maybe I'd built myself up for it to match my expectations.

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Ephie Cozza Aggressive Comix Mar 30, 2020

It's very character driven, it's very action and thrill driven, it also has a really interesting aesthetic.

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PJ Nabarro Patrick Nabarro Aug 30, 2019 2/5

All Tarantino's faux grindhouse tics that he evidently thinks are so amusing are present, but it's not a particularly rewarding conceit to frame a movie around.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Feb 25, 2017 C-

A mindless action film meant solely for Tarantino fans.

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Kevin Carr 7M Pictures Mar 24, 2014 3/5

By the end of the film, Tarantino delivers on the action with a car chase that will get anyone's engine revving.

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Ali Gray TheShiznit.co.uk Nov 3, 2012 3/5

As an anomaly, a curio, even as half a movie, it's a winner. As a stand-alone feature, it struggles to stand up to close scrutiny.

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Charles Cassady Common Sense Media Dec 14, 2010 2/5

Tarantino's very bloody half of Grindhouse.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid Aug 16, 2010

Freed from the constraints of the Grindhouse package, Death Proof can now spread out, find its proper rhythms, and emerge as another excellent Tarantino classic.

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Pablo Villaça Cinema em Cena Jul 17, 2010 4/5

A comprovao de que, nas mos de um diretor que conhece a fundo a tcnica e a histria do Cinema, at mesmo um exerccio de estilo sem grandes ambies pode representar uma experincia apaixonante para quem ama e respeita a Stima Arte.

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Fernando F. Croce CinePassion Aug 27, 2009

Clearly the work of somebody who has ingested Carol J. Clover's Men, Women, and Chainsaws, yet it is also more

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Dragan Antulov Index.hr Apr 10, 2008 7/10

"raja" koja voli Tarantina %u0107e imati itekako razloga da mu oprosti ovaj eksperiment.

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Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Feb 14, 2008 C

Feels much longer than it is.

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Paul Byrnes Sydney Morning Herald Nov 17, 2007 3.5/4

Death Proof is superbly made. There's a terrible tension watching these beautiful and spirited young women getting too close to the flame, followed by enormous relief when the mood changes in the second story.

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Jeffrey Chen Window to the Movies Nov 5, 2007 9/10

A well-controlled buildup of expectations, suspense, and character contrast.

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Urban Cinefile Critics Urban Cinefile Oct 27, 2007

The problem for Tarantino in Death Proof is that the girl talk that occupies so much of the running time is anything but true to the culture 50 years ago. The setting is contempo, but the movie style is period

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