An outrageously entertaining, slam-bang double feature

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2019

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.

| Aug 23, 2017

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

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 14, 2012

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

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.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Mar 22, 2011

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

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 21, 2010

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.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Jun 9, 2010

Half smirk, half transcendence

| Aug 27, 2009

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 20, 2008

This is a movie theater experience. It needs to be seen at night, with a big screen and lots of friends.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Sep 4, 2008

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 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.

| Jul 11, 2008

Hopefully Rodriguez and Tarantino will make more of these.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 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.

| Apr 18, 2008

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

Full Review | Apr 8, 2008

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

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 28, 2008

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

| Original Score: C | Feb 14, 2008

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

| Original Score: C | Jan 4, 2008

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.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 26, 2007

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

| Original Score: 10/10 | Sep 20, 2007