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Richard Corliss, Time: VERY GOOD "...nonstop mayhem with a corpse count in the hundreds and a merry wink in every eye that hasn't been sliced open.... expert, cartoon-violent, light-hearted fun." (Read the full review...) 953 words, 09/03/10 Jake Coyle, Associated Press: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Viewers get precisely what they're paying for: beheadings, skewerings and kill shots to the head by the dozen, with other means of dispatch tossed in for variety." (Read the full review...) 719 words, 09/02/10 Thelma Adams, Us Weekly: VERY GOOD (cg) "...pops with stunt casting: Lindsay Lohan... Oscar winner Robert De Niro... the movie's biggest feat is putting perennial supporting player Trejo (the 'Spy Kids' series) center stage..." (Read the full review...) 114 words, 09/02/10 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a gory, pulpy wink of an action thriller.... The violence is splatterifically witty, but the minor marvel of 'Machete' is how mean everyone in the movie is." (Read the full review...) 338 words, 09/03/10 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...torture, blood spray, kinky sex, twisted fun and a bizarro critique of U.S. policy on illegal immigration.... Just to hear Trejo deadpan the line 'Machete don't text' is tasty compensation." (Read the full review...) 148 words, 09/03/10 Claudia Puig, USA Today: VERY GOOD (cg) "...entertaining and blood-spattered... combines sharp satire and timely political commentary with a decidedly B-movie ethos. The result is inconsistent but amusing." (Read the full review...) 384 words, 09/03/10 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...over-the-top, graphic violence; scenery-chewing villains; cheesy one-liners; and plenty of naked boobs and bums. It's all there in glorious 2D. R-rated silliness." (Read the full review...) 885 words, 09/05/10
Stephen Holden, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...laughter is the appropriate response to this pulpy, lighthearted gorefest... The pace is swift, the tone playful, the screenplay peppered with one-liners." (Read the full review...) 732 words, 09/03/10 Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: WEAK (cg) "The best examples of wit are film-stock scratches and glitches that occur right at the moment a head or hand gets sliced off." (Read the full review...) 416 words, 09/03/10 Michael Phillips, Los Angeles Times/Chicago Tribune: MODERATE "...outlandishly gory and bluntly political, the latter being more interesting than the former. It wears out its welcome, though..." (Read the full review...) 427 words, 09/03/10 Kyle Smith, New York Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...on both sides of the line between clever and stupid... Any movie that finds a plausible reason to give Lindsay Lohan a nun's habit and a machine gun is worth your attention..." (Read the full review...) 690 words, 09/03/10 John Anderson, New York Newsday: VERY GOOD (cg) "Everyone delivers, notably Michelle Rodriguez, who turns in perhaps her most charming performance, and Jessica Alba, as an immigration officer... Lohan is hilarious..." (Read the full review...) 399 words, 09/03/10 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: WEAK "...it's clear that Trejo, for all his gravity, doesn't have a lot of range, and that Rodriguez has less. The movie is ham-handed, repetitive, and rhythm-less -- a mess that's uglier than its hero and nowhere near as likable." (Read the full review...) 498 words, 09/03/10 Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "This is one bloody good B-movie, with Robert De Niro, Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Alba, Steven Seagal and Don Johnson, among others, all taking a supporting back seat to Trejo..." (Read the full review...) 698 words, 09/03/10 Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "...made with a laziness that's so overt it seems to be part of the joke... finds its sweet spot in sketches embedded within the larger narrative... when 'Machete' isn't laugh-out-loud funny, it's deadly boring." (Read the full review...) 741 words, 09/01/10 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...it's hilarious late-summer fun... On the stupid side of the equation, lead director Robert Rodriguez takes his mission far too seriously, occasionally forgetting his mandate to entertain." (Read the full review...) 738 words, 09/03/10 Stephen Cole, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "...never more than an amiable series of riffs on 1970s exploitation movies, a genre that never valued narrative integrity. The riffs are pleasurable." (Read the full review...) 638 words, 09/03/10 Josep Parera, La Opinion: GOOD (cg) "...dejando de lado intenciones políticas, cabe reconocer que este 'Machete' no deja indiferente, aunque su filo provoque más cosquillas que heridas..." (Read the full review...) 556 words, 09/03/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "Rodriguez and Maniquis keep the slashings, shootouts and chases coming fast and furious..." (Read the full review...) 271 words, 09/02/10
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "As they say in the stand-up comedy business, this guy slays." (Read the full review...) 725 words, 09/03/10 Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer: VERY GOOD (cg) "It's hard to think of another film this summer that offers such sheer anarchic fun." (Read the full review...) 412 words, 09/03/10 Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: WEAK (cg) "If the idea is to capitalize on exploitative B-flicks, consider the job done. But if the idea is to satirize them, to bring some cutting wit into the mix of blood and race and sex, then its blade is far too dull." (Read the full review...) 574 words, 09/03/10 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a cutting edge spoof of '70s B-movies.... an Hispanic American version of a blaxploitation film of the 'Super Fly' school..." (Read the full review...) 566 words, 09/03/10 Tom Horgen, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...absurd, absolutely insane and a lot of fun." (Read the full review...) 509 words, 09/03/10 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: VERY GOOD (cg) "...insanely violent, insanely over-the-top. It's pretty much flat-out insane. It's also insanely entertaining, though not - not - for the faint of heart." (Read the full review...) 600 words, 09/03/10 Preston Jones, Dallas Morning News: EXCELLENT (cg) "A loud, giddy, carnal blast from one of cinema's most relentless schlock auteurs... best enjoyed with your brain switched off." (Read the full review...) 611 words, 09/03/10 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a trash guilty pleasure with a healthy (if really violent) sense of outrage.... Rodriguez's freest movie yet, and possibly his best." (Read the full review...) 626 words, 09/03/10 Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: VERY GOOD (cg) "Not only doesn't 'Machete' have good taste, it has never heard of good taste." (Read the full review...) 665 words, 09/03/10 Kevin Johnson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: VERY GOOD (cg) "...makes no apologies for its absurdities or silliness, making it an over-the-top thrill ride." (Read the full review...) 330 words, 09/03/10 Tom Long, Detroit News: GOOD (cg) "Lindsay Lohan throws up and walks around naked. Even so, the movie is not a documentary." (Read the full review...) 295 words, 09/03/10
Karina Longworth, Village Voice/LA Weekly: FAIR "...made with a laziness that's so overt it seems to be part of the joke... finds its sweet spot in sketches embedded within the larger narrative... when 'Machete' isn't laugh-out-loud funny, it's deadly boring." (Read the full review...) 741 words, 09/01/10 Brett Michel, Boston Phoenix: WEAK (cg) "...not even Lindsay Lohan can bring this rotten egg to a boil." (Read the full review...) 155 words, 09/09/10 Scott Tobias, AV Club: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...often stylish and exciting, but the pile-up of cool kills, hot bodies, and other unprocessed bits of juvenilia doesn't add up to a good time." (Read the full review...) 399 words, 09/02/10 William Goss, Cinematical: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...a little ungainly, a bit crowded, but pretty much what you'd expect for a real movie based on a fake trailer." (Read the full review...) 635 words, 09/02/10 Nick Schager, Slant: MODERATE (cg) "...feigns outrageousness while too often opting to earnestly indulge in the very badass poses and sincere political sermonizing it should be delivering with tongue firmly in cheek..." (Read the full review...) 702 words, 08/30/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "Rodriguez and Maniquis keep the slashings, shootouts and chases coming fast and furious..." (Read the full review...) 271 words, 09/02/10 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: WEAK (cg) "Trejo's performance gets shoved to the margins in favor of tedious, repetitive scenes involving the bigger stars." (Read the full review...) 624 words, 09/03/10 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...crazy-funny-violent Mexploitation... there's a refreshing nothing-sacred attitude to 'Machete,' which is exactly the kind of eccentricity that this kind of movie demands, and gets exactly right." (Read the full review...) 832 words, 09/01/10
Stephen Holden, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...laughter is the appropriate response to this pulpy, lighthearted gorefest... The pace is swift, the tone playful, the screenplay peppered with one-liners." (Read the full review...) 732 words, 09/03/10 Michael Phillips, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "...outlandishly gory and bluntly political, the latter being more interesting than the former. It wears out its welcome, though..." (Read the full review...) 427 words, 09/03/10
Joe Leydon, Daily Variety: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "An aggressively overstated mashup of testosterone-fueled melodrama, comically exaggerated violence and babe-o-licious action femmes... wildly uneven..." (Read the full review...) 858 words, 08/31/10 Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: MODERATE "...a relentless onslaught of over-the-top violence, extreme gore, gratuitous nudity and cheap laughs, with a healthy dose of up-to-the-minute political satire to sweeten the package." (Read the full review...) 760 words, 09/01/10 Michael Phillips, Los Angeles Times: MODERATE "...outlandishly gory and bluntly political, the latter being more interesting than the former. It wears out its welcome, though..." (Read the full review...) 427 words, 09/03/10 Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Essentially a cheap exploitation fare (truly a B-programmer)... best enjoyed as a schlock midnight flick." (Read the full review...) 551 words, 09/03/10 Stephen Holden, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...laughter is the appropriate response to this pulpy, lighthearted gorefest... The pace is swift, the tone playful, the screenplay peppered with one-liners." (Read the full review...) 732 words, 09/03/10
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