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Death Proof
7.4
/10
14,717 Ratings

Synopsis

Austin, Texas. DJ Jungle Julia sets out into the night to unwind with her two friends, Shanna and Arlene. In the bar, they meet Mike, a psychopathic, scar-faced stunt driver who likes to take unsuspecting women for deadly drives in his supercharged muscle car…

Our take

A fetish object from American cinema’s preeminent genre fetishist, Death Proof is Quentin Tarantino’s love letter to the grindhouse circuit. With its resolute female agency in the face of male violence, and an iconic villain in Kurt Russell and his vehicular viagra, this one might just be QT’s best.