Ellie Lucas The Dispatch (Lexington, NC) Jun 5, 2019 3/4

An outrageously entertaining, slam-bang double feature

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Dorothy Woodend The Tyee (British Columbia) Aug 23, 2017

The one thing that became evident to me, while watching Tarantino's homage to sewer cinema, is that even while the flesh is melting and being blown apart with bullets, if the spirit is missing, there simply isn't much point.

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Ali Gray TheShiznit.co.uk Oct 14, 2012 5/5

Not just a movie but an event in its own right, Grindhouse is simply unmissable in its complete form.

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David Fear Time Out Nov 17, 2011 3/5

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Joshua Starnes ComingSoon.net Mar 22, 2011 7.5/10

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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R.L. Shaffer IGN DVD Oct 21, 2010 8/10

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

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Ian Buckwalter DCist Jun 9, 2010 7.5/10

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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Fernando F. Croce CinePassion Aug 27, 2009

Half smirk, half transcendence

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Brian Marder Hollywood.com Nov 20, 2008 5/5

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Jeff Bayer The Scorecard Review Sep 4, 2008 9/10

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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Jonathan Kiefer Sacramento News & Review Aug 7, 2008 3/5

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Steve Biodrowski ESplatter Jul 11, 2008

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.

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Lucius Gore ESplatter Jun 18, 2008 4/4

Hopefully Rodriguez and Tarantino will make more of these.

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Brian Holcomb Beyond Hollywood Apr 18, 2008

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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Shane Burridge rec.arts.movies.reviews Apr 8, 2008

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

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Brandon Fibbs BrandonFibbs.com Feb 28, 2008 5/10

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

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

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

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Bruce Bennett Spectrum (St. George, Utah) Jan 4, 2008 C

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

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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Oct 26, 2007 2.5/4

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.

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Tim Brayton Antagony & Ecstasy Sep 20, 2007 10/10

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

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