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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
Grindhouse, like "Ed Wood" and "Boogie Nights," celebrates how certain low-grade entertainment, viewed in hindsight, looks different now than it did then, since we can see the ''innocence'' of its creation -- the handmade quality of it -- in a world not yet ruled by corporate technology. Read full review
By stooping low without selling out, this babes-and-bullets tour de force gets you high on movies again. Read full review
A fascinating exercise in genre reinvention, a showcase for two radically different approaches to homage. Read full review
Planet Terror delivers only momentary kicks...while Tarantino's Death Proof is a juicy, delicious treat, its pleasures stem much less from the play with genre conventions than from great dialogue and electric performances. Read full review
The Rodriguez segment is terrific; the Tarantino one long-winded and juvenile. Read full review
Though it could probably use an intermission, Grindhouse is three hours of mostly campy fun. Read full review
If you were keeping score, it would be Quentin Tarantino 1, Robert Rodriguez 0. Read full review
The obsessive crosshatching of allusion, spoof and homage that gives Grindhouse its texture is the product of a highly refined generational sensibility. Read full review
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. Read full review
The films are bloody, stupid and buoyant in a kind of infantile way, celebrating mayhem, flesh and gore. Planet Terror is by far the livelier. Read full review
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… the most incredible blast of disgusting, orgasmically exploitive trash … Read full review