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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.
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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.
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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.
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New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Critics are already comparing the two movies and largely agreeing that
Tarantino?s story about a psychopathic stuntman who targets women for highway
carnage is the best. I disagree.
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Premiere Glenn Kenny
As much as I enjoyed much of it, I hope Grindhouse doesn't start any trends. Exploitation cinema is combustible stuff that only highly trained professionals should be permitted to play with.
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
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.
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Los Angeles Times
A fascinating exercise in genre reinvention, a showcase for two radically different approaches to homage.
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
The Rodriguez segment is terrific; the Tarantino one long-winded and juvenile.
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USA Today Claudia Puig
Though it could probably use an intermission, Grindhouse is three hours of mostly campy fun.
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The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
If you were keeping score, it would be Quentin Tarantino 1, Robert Rodriguez 0.
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Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Their exhaustive tribute to hungry zombies, fast girls and faster cars is . . . exhausting, if intermittently entertaining.
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