Grindhouse Critic Reviews
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The obsessive crosshatching of allusion, spoof and homage that gives Grindhouse its texture is the product of a highly refined generational sensibility.Read the full review
Though it could probably use an intermission, Grindhouse is three hours of mostly campy fun.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
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
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.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
If you were keeping score, it would be Quentin Tarantino 1, Robert Rodriguez 0.Read the full review
The Rodriguez segment is terrific; the Tarantino one long-winded and juvenile.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
