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Grindhouse
Dimension Films / The Weinstein Company
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FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for strong graphic, bloody violence and gore, pervasive language, some sexuality, nudity and drug use
Starring
Rose McGowan,
Freddy Rodríguez,
Josh Brolin,
Marley Shelton,
Jeff Fahey,
Michael Biehn,
Naveen Andrews, Stacy Ferguson,
and
Nicky Katt
An homage to exploitation B-movie thrillers that combines two feature-length segments into one double-bill designed to replicate the grind house theatergoing experience of the 70s and 80s.
| GENRE(S): |
Action
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Crime
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Horror
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Sci-fi
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Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Robert Rodriguez (segment Planet Terror and fake trailer segment Machete),
Quentin Tarantino (segment Death Proof),
Eli Roth (fake trailer segment Thanksgiving), Edgar Wright (fake trailer segment) and
Rob Zombie (fake trailer segment Werewolf Women of the S.S.)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Robert Rodriguez (segment Planet Terror)
Quentin Tarantino (segment Death Proof)
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 16, 2007
Theatrical: April 6, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
185 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
Also known as "Grind House"

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Village Voice
Nathan Lee
This monumentally pointless movie is best summarized by a line from Planet Terror: "At some point in your life, you find a use for every useless talent you have." Rodriguez, Tarantino, and Co. aim for nothing more noble than to freak the funk, and it's about godd--- time. Go wasted, go stoned, go without your parents' permission. In paying homage to an obsolete form of movie culture, Grindhouse delivers a dropkick to ours.

100
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
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.

100
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
I suspect that Death Proof will throw some of its director's admirers for a loop, though it may be the most revealing thing Tarantino has yet done -- a full-throttle expression of a singular artistic temperament disguised, like so many gems of grindhouses yore, as a glittering hunk of trash.

90
Film Threat
Mark Bell
The only criticism that seems to merit any real discussion is whether directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino actually did make real grindhouse-style fare. To whit, I can easily say: yes, they not only made two on-point grindhouse films, they did them to painful perfection.

90
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
We need filmmakers who can move us forward even as they maintain a sense of the past. To that end, Grindhouse captures a bit of rowdy movie history in a bell jar.

90
Slate
Dana Stevens
You don't need to be an exploitation fanboy to appreciate the energy, imagination, and spirit with which Rodriguez and Tarantino pay homage to the cheapo cinema they love.

88
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Tarantino and Rodriguez want you to cover your eyes in disbelief and get the unholy giggles at the same time. You do, but in two very different ways, and that's the movie's strength.

88
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Critics are already comparing the two movies and largely agreeing that
Tarantino?s story about a psychopathic stuntman who targets women for highway
carnage is the best. I disagree.

88
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
By stooping low without selling out, this babes-and-bullets tour de force gets you high on movies again.

88
Premiere
Glenn Kenny
As much as I enjoyed much of it, I hope Grindhouse doesn't start any trends. Exploitation cinema is combustible stuff that only highly trained professionals should be permitted to play with.

83
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
In all, it's a fun exercise in nostalgia but a three-hour homage to grade Z movies is a long sit. Grunge overload sets in early.

83
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Like the best of its forebears, Grindhouse contains thrills to keep viewers in their seats, plus moments to think about on the ride home, which will probably seem unusually fraught with peril.

80
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
The fun is in the one-thing-after-another delirium the movie induces, and in our breathless anticipation of what they'll hurl at us next.

80
Variety
Todd McCarthy
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.

80
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Value has been added as well -- the most thrilling car chase ever committed to film, a sequence that also shows, by cutting to the psychosexual chase, why fans embraced the tawdry genre in the first place.
80
Los Angeles Times
Dennis Lim
A fascinating exercise in genre reinvention, a showcase for two radically different approaches to homage.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Gives dumpster-divers a chance to slum in the antiseptic safety of a multiplex. (Planet Terror ** (out of four) / Death Proof ***1/2 (out of four).

75
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
To get to the best part first, Tarantino's adrenaline-pumping "Death Proof" is actually a good movie that - unlike Rodriguez's "Planet Terror," - rethinks its genre in ways that say something to contemporary audiences. And it's got some of Tarantino's best dialogue since "Pulp Fiction."

75
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Overall, Grindhouse may well be the Beatlemania of sleaze-movie viewing, but since the real thing is gone it's the best that many fans will ever have.

75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Where Planet Terror is all hollow, self-conscious homage, Death Proof is the work of a director striving to make something original while remaining true to the movies that influenced him. It is also, once it gets going, terrific, sensational fun -- precisely the vibe Grindhouse aims for, but only sporadically
attains.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The kind of movie where it's necessary to put aside pretensions and enjoy the product on its terms, with all the sexiness, violence, gore, and camp as part of the parcel. This is three-plus hours of gleeful-but-guilty escapism.

75
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Though it could probably use an intermission, Grindhouse is three hours of mostly campy fun.

75
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
What's not to love?

75
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
It's inconsistent fun, and it's a little too layered with self-congratulatory irony to be truly transporting.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The Rodriguez segment is terrific; the Tarantino one long-winded and juvenile.

70
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
The obsessive crosshatching of allusion, spoof and homage that gives Grindhouse its texture is the product of a highly refined generational sensibility.

70
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
If you were keeping score, it would be Quentin Tarantino 1, Robert Rodriguez 0.

67
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Grindhouse raises the bar for a certain kind of movie lollapalooza (and also for the kind of filmmaker who is also a showman, along the lines of a William Castle or Cecil B. De Mille). It's this injection of playfulness and fun and attention to the entire movie-going gestalt that will probably become Grindhouse's lasting contribution to movie history rather than any on-the-screen content of the movie itself.

63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Cool. Stupid. Juiced-up. Feeble. Stripped-down. Self-indulgent. Clever. Sophomoric.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
The best fake trailer, and Grindhouse's high point, is Edgar ( Shaun of the Dead) Wright's tone-perfect parody of inviting taboos, entitled "Don't."

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Their exhaustive tribute to hungry zombies, fast girls and faster cars is . . . exhausting, if intermittently entertaining.

63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.

60
The New Yorker
David Denby
The movie won't do much for anyone who doesn't have an academic or fanboy absorption in junk.

60
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
I enjoyed the invented trailers the directors fold into the mix, but despite the jokey "missing reels," these two full-length features are each 20 minutes longer than they need to be, and neither one makes much sense as narrative.

60
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
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.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
The mock trailers are for impossibly schlocky Z-movies with titles like "Machete," "Don't Scream," "Thanksgiving" and "Werewolf Women of the S.S." They're by far the funniest part of the program, possibly because they're mercifully brief.


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