Deliberately paced but never boring, Tarantino's half of the 'Grindhouse" double bill builds to an adrenaline-pumping climax.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 14, 2025

While not all of the female characters are fully fleshed out, the feminist message in Tarantino's car chase movie is impossible to overlook, especially with that satisfying and cathartic final freeze frame.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 9, 2025

The two halves of Death Proof each conclude with a superb car sequence: one a crash, the other a chase; one at night, the other at daytime; one sickening, the other supremely satisfying.

Full Review | Nov 17, 2024

Death Proof is too singularly grindhouse, but it works as a fun, trashy flick, and a cool female empowerment story.

Full Review | Jun 5, 2023

What's seemingly irrelevant acquires interest in Tarantino's troubled waters, dilating time to hit you at the right moment. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 18, 2023

Despite it’s throwback cinema bells and whistles, a pretty good first half, and a really fun Kurt Russell performance, the movie ends up losing steam, and the second half can’t maintain the spark of the first 45 minutes or so.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2022

Don't get me wrong, I didn't detest Death Proof, I just feel that it came up short on what was promised. Maybe the film was over hyped and maybe I'd built myself up for it to match my expectations.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2021

It's very character driven, it's very action and thrill driven, it also has a really interesting aesthetic.

Full Review | Mar 30, 2020

All Tarantino's faux grindhouse tics that he evidently thinks are so amusing are present, but it's not a particularly rewarding conceit to frame a movie around.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 30, 2019

A mindless action film meant solely for Tarantino fans.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Feb 25, 2017

By the end of the film, Tarantino delivers on the action with a car chase that will get anyone's engine revving.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 24, 2014

As an anomaly, a curio, even as half a movie, it's a winner. As a stand-alone feature, it struggles to stand up to close scrutiny.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2012

Tarantino's very bloody half of Grindhouse.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 14, 2010

Freed from the constraints of the Grindhouse package, Death Proof can now spread out, find its proper rhythms, and emerge as another excellent Tarantino classic.

Full Review | Aug 16, 2010

A comprovao de que, nas mos de um diretor que conhece a fundo a tcnica e a histria do Cinema, at mesmo um exerccio de estilo sem grandes ambies pode representar uma experincia apaixonante para quem ama e respeita a Stima Arte.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 17, 2010

Clearly the work of somebody who has ingested Carol J. Clover's Men, Women, and Chainsaws, yet it is also more

Full Review | Aug 27, 2009

"raja" koja voli Tarantina %u0107e imati itekako razloga da mu oprosti ovaj eksperiment.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 10, 2008

Feels much longer than it is.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Feb 14, 2008

Death Proof is superbly made. There's a terrible tension watching these beautiful and spirited young women getting too close to the flame, followed by enormous relief when the mood changes in the second story.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 17, 2007

A well-controlled buildup of expectations, suspense, and character contrast.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 5, 2007