“Grindhouse” – Writer-directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino have a bloody good time here, spinning yarns in the style of the choppy, grainy B-movies they grew up watching in the 1970s. Rodriguez’s “Planet Terror” is the highlight, featuring Rose McGowan as a one-legged, machine-gun-wielding stripper who battles zombies. Tarantino’s “Death Proof” gets mileage from Kurt Russell’s turn as a grade-A sleazeball and a genuinely thrilling car chase finale. Now if only they’d make “Machete” into an actual movie instead of just a fake trailer.
– John Hansen, Brainerd Dispatch, Dec. 27, 2007