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

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

The whole thing runs a bit over three hours, goes by swiftly, contains countless film references and includes hilarious fake trailers.

Full Review | Apr 9, 2007

A rowdy jolt of quasi-nostalgic escapism.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 9, 2007

Shocking gore. Excessive violence. Gratuitous nudity. Exploding pustules. Hey, maybe your childhood was different than mine.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 9, 2007

A weaponized adrenaline rush.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 9, 2007

RR and QT do an excellent job of simulating the content of grindhouse offerings, but they don't simulate the experience or the giddy kick.

Full Review | Apr 9, 2007

Go, I say, and enjoy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 9, 2007

A mixed-bag of a popcorn flick where more proves to be less.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 9, 2007

If it stops feeling like entertainment, then it must be art.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 9, 2007

Tarantino must get a kick hearing his fantasies come out of these mouths. But for the first time here, it seems more than a little creepy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 9, 2007

One word, however, comes immediately to mind: Fun.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 9, 2007

Like the old drive-in speakers that you used to hang on your half-lowered car windows, it may not be the best way to experience the medium. But if your head's in the right place, it can be a heckuva lot of fun.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 9, 2007

Taken as a whole -- two movies and a handful of trailers -- Grindhouse is pure popcorn fun.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 9, 2007

Tarantino and Rodriguez assume that we'll relish the movie's violence or shrug it off as play, as they do, but not everyone in the audience will want his enjoyment of it taken for granted that way.

| Apr 9, 2007

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.

| Apr 9, 2007

The dynamic duo do their utmost to transport us back to the good old bad old days.

| Apr 7, 2007

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.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Apr 7, 2007

As the best trash movies always reminded us, the art is in what you do with the old ones.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 7, 2007

The Rodriguez segment is terrific and shows a director in complete control of tone, image and story.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 7, 2007