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Away We Go
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Beaches of Agnes, The
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Big Man Japan
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Big Shot-Caller, The
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Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story, The
55
Brothers Bloom, The
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Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
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Call of the Wild
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Cheri
62
Cherry Blossoms
63
Dead Snow
65
Departures
18
Downloading Nancy
58
Easy Virtue
70
End of the Line, The
77
Every Little Step
64
Examined Life
80
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38
Gigantic
56
Girl from Monaco, The
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Girlfriend Experience, The
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Gomorrah
89
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63
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Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
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58
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Paris 36
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Pontypool
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Pressure Cooker
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Revanche
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Rudo y Cursi
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Seraphine
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Sex Positive
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Shall We Kiss?
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Sin Nombre
59
Sleep Dealer
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Song of Sparrows, The
54
Stoning of Soraya M., The
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Sugar
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Summer Hours
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Tennessee
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Tetro
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Tokyo Sonata
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Tokyo!
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Tony Manero
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Tulpan
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Two Lovers
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Tyson
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U2 3D
60
Under Our Skin
69
Unmistaken Child
69
Valentino: The Last Emperor
22
What Goes Up
45
Whatever Works
57
Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
91
Hurt Locker, The
89
Goodbye Solo
88
Tulpan
87
Gomorrah
86
Seraphine
84
Summer Hours
83
U2 3D
83
Revanche
83
Tyson
82
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
82
Sugar
82
Hunger
82
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
81
Il Divo
81
Beaches of Agnes, The
80
Food, Inc.
80
Tokyo Sonata
79
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
78
Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story, The
78
O'Horten
77
Every Little Step
77
Sin Nombre
75
24 City
74
Treeless Mountain
74
Afghan Star
74
Two Lovers
74
Song of Sparrows, The
74
Lemon Tree
71
Pressure Cooker
71
Jerichow
70
Shall We Kiss?
70
Tony Manero
70
End of the Line, The
69
Valentino: The Last Emperor
69
Unmistaken Child
67
$9.99
67
Rudo y Cursi
67
Girlfriend Experience, The
66
Adoration
66
Moon
65
Sex Positive
65
Departures
64
Outrage
64
Examined Life
64
Throw Down Your Heart
64
Lymelife
63
Tokyo!
63
Cheri
63
Dead Snow
63
Tetro
63
Great Buck Howard, The
62
Cherry Blossoms
62
Big Man Japan
62
Not Forgotten
61
Sunshine Cleaning
60
Under Our Skin
59
Sleep Dealer
58
Julia
58
Easy Virtue
57
Away We Go
57
Merry Gentleman, The
57
Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love
56
Girl from Monaco, The
56
American Violet
55
Brothers Bloom, The
54
Is Anybody There?
54
Pontypool
54
Stoning of Soraya M., The
52
Quiet Chaos
50
Management
48
Alien Trespass
45
Whatever Works
42
Little Ashes
42
Tennessee
40
Limits of Control, The
40
Paris 36
38
Gigantic
36
Life is Hot in Cracktown
35
New York
28
Big Shot-Caller, The
28
Surveillance
22
What Goes Up
18
Downloading Nancy
16
I Hate Valentine's Day
xx
Call of the Wild
xx
Home
xx
Offshore
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Sin City
Dimension Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for sustained strong stylized violence, nudity and sexual content including dialogue
Starring
Jessica Alba,
Rosario Dawson,
Elijah Wood,
Bruce Willis,
Benicio Del Toro, Michael Clarke Duncan,
Carla Gugino, Josh Hartnett,
Michael Madsen, Jaime King,
and
Brittany Murphy
Robert Rodriguez and comic book icon Frank Miller co-direct Sin City, based on the series of graphic novels created, written and illustrated by Miller. The film is infested with criminals, crooked cops and sexy dames, some searching for vengeance, some for redemption and others, both. (Dimension Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Action
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Crime
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Drama
|
Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Frank Miller (graphic novels)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Frank Miller
Robert Rodriguez
Quentin Tarantino (special guest director)
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 16, 2005
Video: August 16, 2005
Theatrical: April 1, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
126 minutes, Color / B/W |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
New York Magazine
Ken Tucker
The visually stunning Sin City has grit to spare and a thrilling undercurrent of morality.

100
Time
Richard Corliss
Sin City is brazenly, thrillingly alive.

100
Slate
David Edelstein
I loved it. Or, to put it another way, I loved it, I loved it, I loved it. I loved every gorgeous sick disgusting ravishing overbaked blood-spurting artificial frame of it.

100
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
This isn't an adaptation of a comic book, it's like a comic book brought to life and pumped with steroids.

100
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It's a guaranteed must-see for its generation. Sin City has a long, long shelf life ahead.

100
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A movie unlike any other.

100
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Two hours and six minutes has never seemed so much like two and six-tenths seconds. It's pure pulp metafiction.

91
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Some things in Sin City are almost too much to watch: the violence, the cruelty, the irredeemable evil. But it's irresistibly magnetic because it serves as a barely distorted mirror to our world.

90
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Sin City is the first mainstream American picture I've seen this year that feels even remotely brash or original. It's a hard, viciously funny little movie, one with all the subtlety of a billy club. But there's artistry here.

89
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Honestly, this ultra-noir adaptation of Frank Miller's black-and-white cult comic series is a visual feast ripped straight from the original medium's blood-soaked pages.

88
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Tarantino may have nicked the title first, but this is the real ''Pulp Fiction," with all the drama and the dead ends that implies.

88
USA Today
Mike Clark
Occasionally very funny, the picture tends to coast on its cosmetics. A first-rate script might have made it a twisted masterpiece.

88
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Sin City is an evil place, full of awful people, an obsessive movie full of monomaniacal tough guys. Yet when Miller and Rodriguez move it into gear, noir lives.

88
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The worst thing I can say about this savage, sexy and ferociously funny screen translation of three stories from Frank Miller's Sin City series of graphic novels is that it's too much of a good thing.

88
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The most visually inventive comic book adaptation to make its way to a movie screen.

88
Premiere
Aaron Hillis
A rough-and-tumble magnum opus of digital filmmaking that thrillingly basks in the sick, slick, sexy and quick-witted excesses of its imaginatively mutant stylizations.

80
Empire
Kim Newman
For 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.

80
Newsweek
Devin Gordon
It's gory stuff, but it's also a visually arresting blitzkrieg with action so bare-knuckled you'll leave the theater spitting out teeth.

80
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Sin City draws on the cumulative history of both mediums, creating a pastiche that would have been technologically impossible even three years ago. Its creators invent a queasily intoxicating new world.

80
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
Rodriguez clearly assumes Sin City to be his "Pulp Fiction," his rambling portmanteau--a blending of disparate tales to form a complete, overwhelming epic.

80
Variety
Todd McCarthy
For geeks, action freaks and sensation-seeking teenage boys of all ages, the price of admission will provide a one-way ticket to hard-boiled heaven.

80
Film Threat
KJ Doughton
Rodriguez slams down the sledgehammer with so much brutal, punishing force, there's no room to breathe.

75
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Sin City snaps, crackles and pops like no graphic novel ever brought to the screen. Mixing 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.

75
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
This is noir on steroids, cartoonishly ultra-violent and drawing inspiration from Mickey Spillane novels and E.C. comics of the '50s.

75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Sin City gives sin a great name -- it's never been more plentiful or looked so gorgeous.

70
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Rodriguez's evident delight in the form make this a worthwhile piece of eye candy.

70
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Sin 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.

70
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
But once you're good and drunk on the look, details like the tin-eared tough-guy dialogue (which sounds especially stilted issuing from flesh-and-blood mouths) don't seem so important.

63
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Sin City is always moving on to the next thing, and despite surprisingly good work from its large cast (especially Rourke and Owen, who are both outstanding), the picture feels synthetic and artificial.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Dan DeLuca
To say that Sin City is a guy movie - and an often brutally misogynist one, at that - would be an understatement.

58
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Glued tightly from page to screen, Sin City is so seduced by the visual possibilities of sin that style becomes its own vice.

50
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
After half an hour spent drooling over its visual splendors, I found the movie every bit as sickening as its creators intended it to be, minus the kicks they so palpably got out of making it.

50
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
For a relentlessly violent and exploitive noir knockoff, Sin City is mystifyingly flat and static - cartoonish, even, if you want to get tautological about it.

50
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Mr. Rourke's performance is quite phenomenal, a case of unquenchable talent bursting the bonds of dehumanized artifice.
50
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Sin City is a seedy tribute to rugged masculinity disguised as a rogue's gallery, all the better to please college boys who like their sentimentality slicked with grunge.

50
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
What binds and clads the new movie most thoroughly, however, is not storytelling but the high pressure of atmosphere.

40
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Sin City lacks the human interest, not to be confused with humanism, that "Pulp Fiction" had in abundance. As if to underscore the fact, Tarantino guest-directed a scene. It's readily recognizable as the only one in which the dialogue has the slightest conviction.

40
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Eye-popping yet ultimately thin and shallow as a page in a graphic novel.

25
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Everything here has been done better in other books, other movies. The lone remarkable thing is the level of violence, which exposes the cowardice and hypocrisy of the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system.

0
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
The attainment it achieves is in the depths of pointless, mean-spirited exploitation.


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