Grindhouse Critic Reviews

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.Read the 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 the full review

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 the full review

A fascinating exercise in genre reinvention, a showcase for two radically different approaches to homage.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

By stooping low without selling out, this babes-and-bullets tour de force gets you high on movies again.Read the full review

The Rodriguez segment is terrific; the Tarantino one long-winded and juvenile.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

If you were keeping score, it would be Quentin Tarantino 1, Robert Rodriguez 0.Read the full review