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Movie Review for Grindhouse
Movie Review for
Grindhouse
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Grindhouse | | |
| Also known as: | Death Proof, Planet Terror, Grind House |
161 Reviews total.
Release date: 4/6/2007
Run length: 192 mins.
Categories:
Action/Adventure
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Suspense/Horror
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Thriller
Summary:
Directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez present two full-length movies in a new horror double feature.
In Tarantino's "Death Proof," Austin's hottest DJ, Jungle Julia, sets out into the night to unwind with her two friends Shanna an Arlene. Covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike, a scarred rebel leering from behind the wheel of his muscle car, revving just feet away.
In Rodriguez's "Planet Terror," two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and her ex-boyfriend Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night.
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Kevin Carr
of 7M Pictures (8/0)
raised exploitation to an art form
By
Jurgen Fauth
of About.com (8/0)
Planet Terror is a great bad movie; Death Proof is just plain bad.
By
Rebecca Murray
of About.com (8/0)
The fact Grindhouse is able to engage a 21st century audience is due to Quentin Tarantino and Rob...
By
John Wirt
of Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) (8/0)
A long, blood-splattered stunt of a movie, Grindhouse, may be something only critics and film ...
By
Moriarty
of Ain't It Cool Movie Reviews (8/0)
These are filmmakers who have followed their muse, for better or for worse, and what they've come...
By
Mike McGranaghan
of Aisle Seat (8/0)
It's the way Rodriguez, Tarantino, and their guests recreate an experience for you that really ma...
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Phil Villarreal
of Arizona Daily Star (8/0)
Their pastiches take the best of their nostalgic 1960s and '70s trash heap and reshape it into ki...
By
Philip Martin
of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (8/0)
Dense with allusive details and inside jokes, Grindhouse is a postmodern exercise in nostalgia un...
By
Christy Lemire
of Associated Press (8/0)
If you've got a taste for blood and three hours to kill, Grindhouse is for you.
By
Lori Hoffman
of Atlantic City Weekly (8/0)
Grindhouse is more fun than an army of toxic zombies, or a shapely severed leg hitting the highwa...
By
Marjorie Baumgarten
of Austin Chronicle (8/0)
More than just a fun three hours at the movies, Grindhouse is a total immersion into movie geekdo...
By
Ty Burr
of Boston Globe (8/0)
...transports you to the outer limits of creative schlock.
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Fred Topel
of Can Magazine (8/0)
The only way it could be cooler is if Rose McGowan actually gave you a lap dance while you watche...
By
Sean O'Connell
of Charlotte Weekly (8/0)
Two stars for Planet Terror, three stars for Death Proof and four stars for the fake trailers mea...
By
Peter Rainer
of Christian Science Monitor (8/0)
A fun exercise in nostalgia.
By
Joshua Tyler
of CinemaBlend.com (8/0)
You won't have more fun watching anything in a movie theater this year.
By
Jeff Otto
of cinemaobsession.com (8/0)
A three-hour cinematic circle-jerk that starts out well but ultimately disappoints... Don't be su...
By
Jette Kernion
of Cinematical (7/0)
Tarantino's feature Death Proof is the better homage to grindhouse, while Rodriguez's feature Pla...
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Nick Schager
of Cinematical (8/0)
Rodriguez goes for full-blooded faithfulness, Tarantino goes for genre analysis and reconfigurati...
By
Mark Palermo
of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (8/0)
What we're mainly getting is two big directors with expensive movies pretending they're niche dir...
By
Cole Smithey
of ColeSmithey.com (8/0)
The palpable cinematic elation and hip vibe that wafts from the screen is more than contagious; i...
By
Jeffrey M. Anderson
of Combustible Celluloid (8/0)
Death Proof pays a good deal less attention to looking like an old film and spends more time actu...
By
Edward Douglas
of ComingSoon.net (8/0)
The sum is effectively greater than the parts, but Tarantino knocks one out of the park with a br...
By
Matt Brunson
of Creative Loafing (8/0)
One's the bomb, while the other's simply a bomb.
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Matt Weitz
of Dallas Morning News (8/0)
Like the old drive-in speakers that you used to hang on your half-lowered car windows, it may not...
By
Kam Williams
of DallasBlack.com (8/0)
A couple of hilarious, high attrition-rate horror parodies augmented by faux ads for four equally...
By
Garth Franklin
of Dark Horizons (8/0)
A unapologetically entertaining double feature that, despite its drawn out runtime and clunky mom...
By
John J. Puccio
of DVDTown.com (7/1)
Grindhouse is not your dear Aunt Martha's movie, but it's a heck of a ride.
By
Alex Markerson
of E! Online (8/0)
If the trailer sold you on the concept, the film won't be a disappointment.
By
David Cornelius
of eFilmCritic.com (8/0)
Your feature presentation: two movies made entirely of awesome.
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Dawn Taylor
of eFilmCritic.com (8/0)
Tarantino and fellow sleaze merchant Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) attempt to recreate the experien...
By
Erik Childress
of eFilmCritic.com (8/0)
Despite the occasional bump-'n-grind over its three-hour-plus running time, there haven't been tw...
By
Emanuel Levy
of EmanuelLevy.Com (8/0)
A decidedly mixed bag, this homage to exploitation films shows the idiosyncratic approach, streng...
By
Vince Koehler
of Entertainment Spectrum (8/0)
Both features offered tons of action, kung fu fighting, comedy and over the top acting.
By
Owen Gleiberman
of Entertainment Weekly (8/0)
...summons the most crackerjack pop charge of any movie with Tarantino's name on it since Pulp Fi...
By
Eric D. Snider
of EricDSnider.com (8/0)
As an exercise in aging-movie-geek nostalgia, Grindhouse is a bloody good time.
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Walter Chaw
of Film Freak Central (8/0)
Too bad Tarantino didn't do the zombie pic, too.
By
Ethan Alter
of Film Journal International (8/0)
An ungainly creature that alternates moments of sheer brilliance with moments of stunning banalit...
By
Mark Bell
of Film Threat (7/0)
Grindhouse is, at the end of the day, simply a fun time at the theater
By
Norm Schrager
of filmcritic.com (8/0)
If Tarantino and Rodriguez were hoping to make a film better than the poster, they exceeded their...
By
Norm Schrager
of filmcritic.com (8/0)
...unerringly crowd-pleasing.
By
Edward Havens
of FilmJerk.com (8/0)
Gloriously grotesque, hilariously horrific and exactly the shot in the arm movies have been needi...
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Victoria Alexander
of FilmsInReview.com (8/0)
Death Proof was sensational. If only Rose McGowan could act.
By
Brent Simon
of FilmStew.com (8/0)
A film whose pop cultural penetration will be very deep for a select few, and conversely very sha...
By
MaryAnn Johanson
of Flick Filosopher (8/0)
[O]ne of the most exciting movie experiences in ages, one that demands to be seen on a big screen...
By
Rob Vaux
of Flipside Movie Emporium (8/0)
It makes you believe in the power of guilty pleasures -- suggesting in its own fanboy way that ev...
By
Bill Clark
of FromTheBalcony (8/0)
For those who want to witness a daring, albeit flawed, original freak show from two of Hollywood'...
By
Chuck O'Leary
of FulvueDrive-in.com (8/0)
The films seldom rise above the cheesy level of the very "B" movies they're emulating, but Grindh...
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Jeffrey Lyles
of Gazette (MD) (8/0)
the lead off “summer movie” that dares its competitors to match its level of inspired mayhem.
By
Jeffrey Lyles
of Gazette (MD) (8/0)
the lead off “summer movie” that dares its competitors to match its level of inspired mayhem.
By
Peter Canavese
of Groucho Reviews (8/0)
Grindhouse isn't great cinema, but it is a genuine event picture, a rare good reason to venture o...
By
Kirk Honeycutt
of Hollywood Reporter (8/0)
Like all double bills of the sick, shocking, perverse exploitation movies of old, one is better t...
By
Staci Layne Wilson
of Horror.com (8/0)
Rodriguez and Tarantino have definitely raised the bar.
By
Bruce Westbrook
of Houston Chronicle (8/0)
A mixed-bag of a popcorn flick where more proves to be less.
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Todd Gilchrist
of IGN Movies (8/0)
Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino return with a rousing tribute to the genre movies that ins...
By
Jim Slotek
of Jam! Movies (8/0)
Suffice to say, you'll have plenty to talk about.
By
Bob Bloom
of Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (8/0)
It is not the movies themselves that are great, though the flesh-eating zombie thriller by Rodriq...
By
Andrea Chase
of Killer Movie Reviews (8/0)
Both gentlemen have a palpable affection for the kitsch factor at work here, the energy of workin...
By
Beth Accomando
of KPBS.org (8/0)
It makes going to the movies an event.
By
Scott Foundas
of L.A. Weekly (8/0)
Tarantino and Rodriguez are telling us something about what turned them on at the movies back whe...
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Robert Roten
of Laramie Movie Scope (8/0)
A waste of time.
By
John Larsen
of Light Views (8/0)
Raging at you harder than a televangelist on an overdose of Viagra, Grindhouse pulverizes the aud...
By
Prairie Miller
of Long Island Press (8/0)
Damaged or missing reels anticipating sexual excess disappear conveniently on cue, to keep the ra...
By
Andy Klein
of Los Angeles CityBeat (8/0)
The whole thing tops out at about three hours and ten minutes; while this may mimic the sort of "...
By
Mark Dujsik
of Mark Reviews Movies (8/0)
The dragging, plodding pace and creative misfire of Tarantino's movie is enough to put a big damp...
By
Pete Hammond
of Maxim (8/0)
A movie lovers dream come true, an absolute triumph in every way imaginable.
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Matt Pais
of Metromix.com (8/0)
Almost literally dripping with film buffs' excitement over how far movies have come, how far they...
By
Duane Dudek
of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (8/0)
If you can stomach Rodriguez's effort, fear not -- you'll be rewarded with Tarantino's.
By
Gabriel Shanks
of Mixed Reviews (8/0)
As a glimpse into the minds of two iconoclastic directors -- both of whom came of age watching th...
By
Kevin N. Laforest
of Montreal Film Journal (8/0)
It's too bad that Planet Terror isn't as great as Death Proof but hey, we're getting two flicks f...
By
Ken Hanke
of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (8/0)
While not a washout, Death Proof is inferior to Rodriguez's masterfully over-the-top Planet Terro...
By
David Poland
of Movie City News (8/0)
Terror Planet is too much for its own good, but Death Proof leaves you wanting more.
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Marty Mapes
of Movie Habit (8/0)
Underneath the exploitation, Tarantino and Rodriguez offer film lovers the gift of nostalgia
By
Kevin A. Ranson
of MovieCrypt.com (8/0)
Glorious and gratuitous trash cinema at its most entertaining and critic-proof.
By
Mark Ramsey
of MovieJuice! (8/0)
Yes, the hotly anticipated Grindhouse opened to a smaller box office than Are We Done Yet, which ...
By
Kurt Loder
of MTV (8/0)
An important fact to be noted about "Grindhouse" is this: It's three hours and 11 minutes long. A...
By
David Edelstein
of New York Magazine (8/0)
The fun is in the one-thing-after-another delirium the movie induces, and in our breathless antic...
By
Lou Lumenick
of New York Post (8/0)
...a mixed bag.
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
A. O. Scott
of New York Times (8/0)
...exuberant, uneven...
By
A. O. Scott
of New York Times (7/0)
Grindhouse is soaked in bloody nostalgia for the cheesy, disreputable pleasures of an older form ...
By
Gene Seymour
of Newsday (8/0)
Even if it's all an aesthetic exercise, it's an indulgence you don't regret.
By
Michael A. Smith
of Nolan's Pop Culture Review (8/0)
...a film destined to be a cult classic.
By
Jeffrey Westhoff
of Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) (8/0)
The numbness of sitting through nearly two hours of dreck isn't all that kills the momentum going...
By
Jeffrey Westhoff
of Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) (8/0)
The numbness of sitting through nearly two hours of dreck isn't all that kills the momentum going...
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Brian Orndorf
of OhmyNews.com (7/1)
It's a heavily stylized, volatile, atomic sensory shockwave that is so hip and ice cool, you'll n...
By
Frank Swietek
of One Guy's Opinion (8/0)
As was the case with most of the AIP exploitation programmers it fondly recalls, Grindhouse prove...
By
Keith Phipps
of Onion AV Club (8/0)
Grindhouse contains thrills to keep viewers in their seats, plus moments to think about on the ri...
By
Roger Moore
of Orlando Sentinel (8/0)
You go to Grindhouse for the same reasons people went to the original grindhouses primal, viscera...
By
Cole Haddon
of Orlando Weekly (8/0)
Once you get past the absurdity of it all, what you get is a one-two punch of fun the likes of wh...
By
Wesley Lovell
of Oscar Guy (8/0)
An intriguing package of faux trailers and senseless violence and gore. Rarely is there a film th...
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Fiore Mastracci
of Outtakes With Fiore (8/0)
It's like the little kid who keeps telling the same joke repeatedly. It's not funny, only annoyi...
By
Dennis Schwartz
of Ozus' World Movie Reviews (8/0)
As much fun as being in a car crash.
By
Susan Tavernetti
of Palo Alto Weekly (7/0)
Packaging a three-hour-plus program may be daring, but pairing a long running time with junk-food...
By
Sean Burns
of Philadelphia Weekly (8/0)
A museum installation of crap culture artifacts that is both entirely too much and not nearly eno...
By
Bill Gibron
of PopMatters (8/0)
Grindhouse...is a slam bam smash 'em up celebration of the freedom given film by the exploitation...
By
Cynthia Fuchs
of PopMatters (8/0)
The ferocity of the car-fight is something else, but Death Proof understands perfectly the sheer ...
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Glenn Kenny
of Premiere Magazine (8/0)
Exploitation cinema is combustible stuff that only highly trained professionals should be permitt...
By
Kevin Koehler
of Pretentious Musing (8/0)
I almost feel bad for Robert Rodriguez, insofar as he has the misfortune to make a generally ente...
By
Rob Humanick
of Projection Booth (7/0)
While I believe Tarantino to be a far greater artist when it comes to lining his cinematic and po...
By
James Kendrick
of Q Network Film Desk (8/0)
a navel-gazing exercise in nostalgia for a bygone era when trash cinema had its own lurid pedigre...
By
Linda Cook
of Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (8/0)
Here's a movie that certain film fans will love.But that's a small segment of the film-going comm...
By
Mark R. Leeper
of rec.arts.movies.reviews (8/0)
Rodriguez understood the project the better of the two directors and made the more appropriate o...
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
David Nusair
of Reel Film Reviews (8/0)
...there's certainly no denying the effectiveness of Grindhouse as an overall experience (one tha...
By
Jim Hemphill
of Reel.com (8/0)
An instant cult classic.
By
Jeffrey Chen
of ReelTalk Movie Reviews (8/0)
It's the juxtaposition of Grindhouse's main parts that makes the whole work as well as it does.
By
James Berardinelli
of ReelViews (8/0)
...not going to appeal to everyone.
By
Jack Garner
of Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (8/0)
Both films are wildly entertaining, as long as you're ready for the high-intensity gore factor, t...
By
Peter Travers
of Rolling Stone (8/0)
Tarantino and Rodriguez rock it.
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Stephanie Zacharek
of Salon.com (8/0)
Love it or hate it, you sure get your money's worth.
By
Sean Means
of Salt Lake Tribune (8/0)
The combination of films in Grindhouse proves to be true to the grungy grind-house tradition: Som...
By
Larry Ratliff
of San Antonio Express-News (8/0)
Too bad, but this ambitious, scratched and weathered venture never manages a real death grip on t...
By
David Elliott
of San Diego Union-Tribune (8/0)
Robert Rodriguez bakes a load of stale if bloody pastry called Planet Terror, while Quentin Taran...
By
Mick LaSalle
of San Francisco Chronicle (8/0)
The Rodriguez segment is terrific; the Tarantino one long-winded and juvenile.
By
Eric Melin
of Scene-Stealers.com (8/0)
Taken as a whole, Grindhouse is a deliriously entertaining night out at the theater. This is one ...
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Gina Carbone
of Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine) (8/0)
It's sexy girl power mixed with frustrated male aggression, played out at 100 miles per hour on a...
By
Sean McBride
of Sean the Movie Guy (8/0)
regular audiences might have trouble getting through the film’s three-plus hours of B-movie exces...
By
Sean McBride
of Sean the Movie Guy (8/0)
regular audiences might have trouble getting through the film’s three-plus hours of B-movie exces...
By
William Arnold
of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (8/0)
...the action is carried to a preposterous extreme of non-stop wretched excess...
By
Mark Rahner
of Seattle Times (8/0)
Shocking gore. Excessive violence. Gratuitous nudity. Exploding pustules. Hey, maybe your childho...
By
Rich Cline
of Shadows on the Wall (7/0)
[In Death Proof, Tarantino] gleefully subverts the genre to keep us thoroughly entertained.
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Jeremiah Kipp
of Slant Magazine (8/0)
Grindhouse is more homage than reinvention of schlock.
By
Dana Stevens
of Slate (4/4)
You don't need to be an exploitation fanboy to appreciate the energy, imagination, and spirit wit...
By
Nick Rogers
of State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) (8/0)
A timed challenge for five directors to remove, impale, explode or gorily drip to the floor every...
By
Angela Baldassarre
of Sympatico.ca (8/0)
Only somebody with enough resources and clout within the movie industry can resurrect an unpleasa...
By
Dustin Putman
of TheMovieBoy.com (8/0)
For the one-of-a-kind experience all by itself, it is not to be missed. Narrowing in one's focus ...
By
Frank Ochieng
of TheWorldJournal.com (8/0)
Enthralling and exhilarating in its explosive camp-driven excess, Grindhouse is a combustible con...
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Frank Ochieng
of TheWorldJournal.com (8/0)
Enthralling and exhilarating in its explosive camp-driven excess, Grindhouse is a combustible con...
By
David Fear
of Time Out New York (8/0)
An epic exercise in cultural necrophilia.
By
Eric Lurio
of Times Square (8/0)
The package as a whole is great, but the parts are uneven.
By
Maitland McDonagh
of TV Guide's Movie Guide (8/0)
Does it feel like the real thing? No. Is it an incredible simulation? Yes, it's pretty incredible...
By
Brian Tallerico
of UnderGround Online (8/0)
Is the return of these two undeniably talented filmmakers to the house of grind fun? To put it in...
By
Claudia Puig
of USA Today (8/0)
Though it could probably use an intermission, Grindhouse is three hours of mostly campy fun.
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Willie Waffle
of WaffleMovies.com (8/0)
Any movie featuring the violent, painful death of Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas gets extra kudo...
By
Susan Granger
of www.susangranger.com (8/0)
Hyper-sleazy and deliberately cliche-filled, it's an affectionate homage to the deliberately tawd...
By
John Beifuss
of Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
'Death Proof''s defiance of expectation is as much a part of the grindhouse legacy as bare breast...
By
Greg Maki
of Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) (4/5) Login Required (Login Required)
... A wholly unique experience that absolutely must be taken in on the big screen to get the full...
By
Christopher Smith
of Bangor Daily News (Maine) (7/1) No reference
Designed for those who want to rock on schlock.
By
Chad Greene
of Boxoffice Magazine (4/4) No reference
It’s nowhere near as much fun for fans to watch as it was for these fan boys to make.
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Jonathan Rosenbaum
of Chicago Reader (3/5) No reference
I enjoyed the invented trailers the directors fold into the mix, but despite the jokey 'missing r...
By
Richard Roeper
of Chicago Sun-Times (7/1) No reference
...slam-bang, blood-spattered, hell-of-a-good-time double feature of schlock and awe...
By
Devin Faraci
of CHUD (7/1) No reference
Death Proof is, in many ways, an amazing approximation of the old exploitation films, but with an...
By
Jeff Vice
of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (7/1) No reference
Grindhouse runs three-plus hours and is simply too much of a good-bad thing.
By
Scott Weinberg
of FEARnet (7/1) No reference
This doozy of a double feature is full-bore fun all the way; a smart, slick, sick, and exceedingl...
By
Jimmy O
of Film Snobs (3/5) No reference
Self=Absorbed. Excessive. Tragically Hip. You Bet!
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
James Sanford
of Kalamazoo Gazette (7/1) No reference
If you appreciate the styles that Rodriguez and Tarantino are simultaneously spoofing and paying ...
By
Robert W. Butler
of Kansas City Star (3/5) No reference
Grindhouse has plenty of fun moments, and with a running time of more than three hours you can't ...
By
Glenn Whipp
of Los Angeles Daily News (7/1) No reference
Rodriguez, to a fault, delivers a zombie movie that lazily apes the exploitation handbook, while ...
By
Nell Minow
of Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies (7/1) No reference
Their unabashed affection for the grindhouse genre keeps them from becoming arch, po-mo, or self-...
By
Lisa Rose
of Newark Star-Ledger (3/5) No reference
So over-the-top, it makes 300 look like a study in minimalism.
By
Shawn Levy
of Oregonian (7/1) No reference
A simulation of a night at the drive-in or downtown fleabag theater of your fondest imagination.
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Gary Thompson
of Philadelphia Daily News (7/1) No reference
Feel free to talk, howl, and throw your popcorn at the screen.
By
Carrie Rickey
of Philadelphia Inquirer (7/1) No reference
RR and QT do an excellent job of simulating the content of grindhouse offerings, but they don't s...
By
Mike Ward
of Richmond.com (7/1) No reference
Supped up with testosterone and estrogen, charred bits 'o flesh and more panty shots than the red...
By
Carla Meyer
of Sacramento Bee (7/1) No reference
You can see the love in every frame.
By
Phoebe Flowers
of South Florida Sun-Sentinel (6/2) No reference
Further proof that every movie is better when it has zombies in it, Planet Terror also demonstrat...
By
Daniel M. Kimmel
of Worcester Telegram & Gazette (4/4) No reference
Rodriguez offers up Planet Terror, a straight-faced send-up of a science-fiction/horror/thriller....
Reviews of Grindhouse
By
Lawrence Toppman
of Charlotte Observer (7/1) Not Reachable
Cool. Stupid. Juiced-up. Feeble. Stripped-down. Self-indulgent. Clever. Sophomoric.
By
Harvey S. Karten
of Compuserve (7/1) Not Reachable
Rodriguez and Tarantino pay homage to the 70's exploitation films: For me the Tarantino breathtak...
By
Harvey S. Karten
of Compuserve (7/1) Not Reachable
Rodriguez and Tarantino pay homage to the 70's exploitation films: For me the Tarantino breathtak...
By
D.K. Holm
of Movie Poop Shoot (7/1) Not Reachable
Tarantino has conceived a plot just as odd as the better, experimental '70s drive in films.
By
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
of St. Paul Pioneer Press (3/5) Not Reachable
It is crazy, pulpy fun -- some parts of it more than others -- but it has some of the flaws that ...
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