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Sin City
"There is no justice without sin."
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- Stars
- Jessica Alba, Devon Aoki, Alexis Bledel, Powers Boothe, Rosario Dawson
- Director
- Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller (II)
- Language
- English
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The movie feels like a reductive exercise. Rodriguez might have accomplished what he set out to do, but I'm not sure he's done anyone any favors.
Full Review|Apr 1, 2005To remember Sin City hours later is to remember from a different part of the brain that remembers conventional movies.
Full Review|Apr 1, 2005Ultimately comes off as an exercise in cold-blooded stylishness, uninvolving and overlong at 2 hours and 6 minutes.
Apr 1, 2005Watch it, listen to it. Just don't chew on it too much. It's not great art, and it's not great literature. It is just the flat-out coolest looking movie to come along in years.
Full Review|Apr 1, 2005Mixing live-action with computer-generated images, it looks like the novels, talks and bleeds like the novels, is as muscular and voluptuous as the novels -- and it leaves you breathless as only a movie can.
Full Review|Apr 1, 2005It's loud, large, sick and a whole lot of fun.
Apr 1, 2005Without doubt the most visually stunning live action transfer of the comic book format to the big screen ever made.
Full Review|Apr 1, 2005Rodriguez and company have so faithfully captured Miller's essence, there's something beautiful about the whole thing. It's an act of inspired reverence.
Full Review|Mar 31, 2005Every now and then, a movie does more than gamely defend the status quo but actually advances the art form. So it is with Sin City, a stunning, brutal vision of a city gone mad.
Full Review|Mar 31, 2005I can't endorse the content, but I can't dismiss the presentation. Sin City is superlative filmmaking in service of a poisonous view of humanity. It's a dangerous work of art.
Full Review|Mar 31, 2005So seduced by the visual possibilities of sin that style becomes its own vice.
Full Review|Mar 30, 2005There's something to appreciate around every corner -- the gritty characters, the uncompromising story, and, most of all, visuals to astound and amaze.
Full Review|Mar 24, 2005On one hand, Robert Rodriguez drenches "Sin City" in his usual monsoon of ironic, macho macabre. On the other, do-gooder pride prove as dangerous as broads or bad guys, offering a thematically gray complement to arctic-white, inkblot-black visuals.
Full Review|Oct 1, 2010The world Miller and Rodriguez have created is so bleak and nasty it's difficult to see what lasting value any sort of redemption could have here.
Oct 11, 2006If Raymond Chandler and Daffy Duck could have produced a child, Sin City would be their baby.
Full Review|May 12, 2006Two hours and six minutes has never seemed so much like two and six-tenths seconds. It's pure pulp metafiction.
Full Review|Apr 1, 2005The most gorgeous digital movie ever made. It represents a stunning leap forward in both the technology of digital cinema and the art of filmmaking.
Apr 1, 2005You've got to hand it to Miller and Rodriguez. Their Sin City is no place for tourists.
Full Review|Apr 1, 2005Undeniably exciting, and as close to a comic book as the movies have ever gotten. It's a fun ride.
Full Review|Apr 1, 2005Except for the striking images, it starts to fade even as you're watching it. It is such a bold and striking movie, however, that for the first time we can appreciate the full potential of what Rodriguez has wrought.
Full Review|Apr 1, 2005A redemption saga as overripe with religious allegory as it is anything else, in search of a confession booth or maybe just the hard stuff straight up or even a cold shower. But you won't simply leave it behind. It hurts too good.
Full Review|Apr 1, 2005Sin City is one of those films that you know going in is either going to be super-cool or ultra-awful. And in this case, depending on how you look at it, you can't lose or you can't win, because it's both.
Full Review|Mar 31, 2005Sometimes it all seems as schematic as a theme park attraction. Mostly, though, the movie comes across like the fever dream of a smart, put-upon adolescent who'd been up all night watching every black-and-white crime movie made since the sound era.
Full Review|Mar 31, 2005A movie of such high style, done in such a spirit of electrifying fun and creativity, that it kisses the blood right off its own violent hands.
Full Review|Mar 31, 2005Sin City is a lot of things, but most of all, it's fun. It may not be for everyone, but everyone should see it once anyway, just to find out if it's for them.
Full Review|Mar 30, 2011My own trajectory while watching Sin City--excited, bored, offended...back to bored...roll credits
Full Review|Sep 3, 2010"Sin City" is a high contrast tour de force cinematic adaptation of Frank Miller's hugely popular and wickedly grotesque graphic novel homage to the hard-boiled style of Dashell Hammett and Mickey Spillane.
Full Review|Apr 18, 2009Eager to blaze trails for desktop moviemaking, what did these artists do? Throw fuel on the fires of viewers' basest appetites.
Sep 7, 2007For those who revel in this kind of adrenaline rush spectator sport, let the games begin.
Mar 28, 2007Can bring more pain than satisfaction.
May 21, 2005It's a hard, viciously funny little movie, one with all the subtlety of a billy club. But there's artistry here, too.
Full Review|Apr 1, 2005Miller's world of rough customers living on the wild side possesses a sordid allure, which the directors dazzlingly deliver to the screen.
Full Review|Apr 1, 2005Sin City is a hard, cold, relentless assault. It's also something Hollywood seems to have given up on: a bold, uncompromised vision.
Apr 1, 2005I loved it, I loved it, I loved it. I loved every gorgeous sick disgusting ravishing overbaked blood-spurting artificial frame of it.
Full Review|Apr 1, 2005This big-screen treatment of Miller's graphic novels is a soft- core marathon of stylized mayhem, flesh-pot excess and cinematic pretense.
Full Review|Apr 1, 2005If you have a taste for this sort of thing, it's difficult to imagine how it could be done any better.
Apr 1, 2005It'll be interesting to see how time treats City's novelty value once live action/computer screen hybrids become more common. Right now it looks like one of the movies that will define its year even more than the Kill Bill duo did.
Full Review|Mar 31, 2005Sin City has been made with such scrupulous care and obvious love for its genre influences that it's a shame the movie is kind of a bore.
Full Review|Mar 31, 2005It's a visualization of the pulp noir imagination, uncompromising and extreme. Yes, and brilliant.
Full Review|Mar 31, 2005What we get is a preponderance of sameness. A movie with one vibe that oversells itself and, eventually, overstays its welcome.
Full Review|Mar 31, 2005The major problem is that after about 10 minutes, you've seen all the movie's tricks. The look is hypnotic yet never changes.
Mar 28, 2005While the book succeeded in pushing the boundaries of its medium, the film merely feels like a triumph of technology.
Full Review|Aug 16, 2007For all its visual razzle-dazzle and enjoyably bad-ass attitude, there's something curiously empty about Sin City.
Full Review|Mar 1, 2007For the guys it's Rodriguez's best film by far and a treat for fans of good-looking girls in black-and-white, of classic film noir and of imaginative ultra-violence.
Full Review|Jan 7, 2006
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