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Sleaze City.(Grindhouse)

The New Yorker

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With the three-hour-and-eleven-minute "Grindhouse," the writer-directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have put together an entire evening's entertainment devoted to the violent schlock movies and decrepit theatres that they loved as kids and never stopped loving. "Grindhouse" is a single film with no intermission, but it includes two new features and such divertissements as trailers for ridiculous imaginary pictures ("Werewolf Women of the S.S."), ads for revolting food at local restaurants, and artifacts of down-at-the-heels moviegoing from decades ago. At climactic moments in the two features--say, just as the hero and the heroine are about to get it on--the ...

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