Jordan M. Smith

"Though director Elijah Drenner's first docu full length feature is an entertaining and historically enlightening film on often forgotten genre, its topic is too broad to cover in such a short length of time. A film focusing on the antiquities of exploitation cinema, American Grindhouse packs just the nuts and bolts, leaving the coveted nitty-gritty on the cutting room floor."

"The candor of the convicted subjects in the doc is eye opening. It's clear they regret what they did, and look back at the events with a much more astute perspective, and not just because they got caught."

"Though director Elijah Drenner's first docu full length feature is an entertaining and historically enlightening film on often forgotten genre, its topic is too broad to cover in such a short length of time. A film focusing on the antiquities of exploitation cinema, American Grindhouse packs just the nuts and bolts, leaving the coveted nitty-gritty on the cutting room floor."

"The candor of the convicted subjects in the doc is eye opening. It's clear they regret what they did, and look back at the events with a much more astute perspective, and not just because they got caught."

"The resulting film (winner of three Sundance awards and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature) empathetically depicts a disturbing lifestyle, lived out by people who made a series of poor choices, happened to draw the short straw, or a combination of the two."