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.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
By stooping low without selling out, this babes-and-bullets tour de force gets you high on movies again.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Dennis Lim
A fascinating exercise in genre reinvention, a showcase for two radically different approaches to homage.Read Full Review »
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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.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
Though it could probably use an intermission, Grindhouse is three hours of mostly campy fun.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
What Grind lacks in cinematic skill, it makes up for in heart, which is what most dudes-in-arms flicks are missing. Given the option of spending eternity with these gentlemen or the boys of ''American Pie,'' I'd choose the lads of Grind.Read Full Review »
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