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Planet Terror

Grindhouse: Planet Terror

2007

Robert Rodriguez

Freddy Rodriguez, Bruce Willis, Rose McGowan, Josh Brolin ...

6.4

43,396

Horror. Thriller. Action. Comedy Two 75 minute horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez put together as a two film features. Including fake movie trailers in between both movies. Grindhouse – noun – A downtown movie theater - in disrepair since its glory days as a movie palace of the '30s and '40s - known for "grinding out" non-stop double-bill programs of B-movies. From groundbreaking directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez comes the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"I don’t feel guilty about calling 'Grindhouse' a pleasure. By stooping low without selling out, this babes-and-bullets tour de force gets you high on movies again (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Rodriguez's 'Planet Terror' recycles the durable 'Living Dead' formula (...) What distinguishes Rodriguez's picture is the extraordinary skill of the makeup (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"'Grindhouse' contains thrills to keep viewers in their seats, plus moments to think about on the ride home"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Rodriguez’s installment wins points for more exactly replicating the hollow, soul-sucking badness of many low-grade gore films"	POS
United Kingdom	Henry Cabot Beck The Guardian	"[It] has all the right elements (...) The picture is too big and too good to be mistaken for a battered relic of the Seventies"	POS
United States	Jeremiah Kipp Slant	"'Grindhouse' is more homage than reinvention of schlock (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Todd Gilchrist IGN	"'Planet Terror' is Rodriguez' best film to date and an unequivocal masterpiece of celebratory schlock."	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"There's no question that 'Grindhouse' accomplishes what the directors set out to do (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"'Grindhouse' wants to give you a ticky-tacky good time, and does (...) Why is this movie so much more fun than the ones it’s copying? (...) An instant classic of deadpan perfection"	POS

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