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Sin City

Sin City (2005)

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Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 242
Fresh: 188 | Rotten: 54

Visually groundbreaking and terrifically violent, Sin City brings the dark world of Frank Miller's graphic novel to vivid life.

73

Average Rating: 7.1/10
Critic Reviews: 48
Fresh: 35 | Rotten: 13

Visually groundbreaking and terrifically violent, Sin City brings the dark world of Frank Miller's graphic novel to vivid life.

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Average Rating: 3.3/5
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The Eisner Award-winning comic series Sin City comes to life in this live-action feature adaptation from director Robert Rodriguez and creator Frank Miller. Interweaving multiple storylines from the series' history, this violent crime noir paints the picture of the ultimate town without pity through the eyes of its roughest characters. There's the street thug Marv (Mickey Rourke), whose desperate quest to find the killer of a prostitute named Goldie (Jaime King) will lead him to the foulest

Aug 16, 2005

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With a huge, well-chosen cast and the blessing of Miller, who was on set as Rodriguez's co-director, Sin City is a gloriously stylized world unlike anything you've seen before on screen.

April 14, 2013 Full Review Source: Associated Press
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For all its astronomical body count, Sin City is brazenly, thrillingly alive.

April 14, 2013 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine
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While Sin City on screen evokes the same feeling of bottomless decadence and dread that the novels do, there is one crucial difference -- you can put the novels down.

April 14, 2013 Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal
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While the book succeeded in pushing the boundaries of its medium, the film merely feels like a triumph of technology.

August 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out New York
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A worthwhile piece of eye candy.

April 18, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader
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If Raymond Chandler and Daffy Duck could have produced a child, Sin City would be their baby.

May 12, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Magazine
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The cast is excellent and the computer-generated visuals are consistently stunning. Too bad the narration sounds like a string of clichés from creaky old detective novels.

April 14, 2013 Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor
Christian Science Monitor

Sin 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.

March 30, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net
ComingSoon.net

This extremely violent movie is NOT for kids.

December 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comments (15)
Common Sense Media

On 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.

October 1, 2010 Full Review Source: Suite101.com
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My own trajectory while watching Sin City--excited, bored, offended...back to bored...roll credits

September 3, 2010 Full Review Source: Cinema Writer | Comments (4)
Cinema Writer

Sin City is the most accurate adaptation ever done of a comic book.

July 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Dark Horizons
Dark Horizons

Hot chicks, big guns, bad ass bruisers, what more could you ask for?

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comments (2)
Cinema Crazed

"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.

April 18, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com
ColeSmithey.com

A Ground-Breaking Piece of Film-Noir Fantasy.

April 17, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinefantastique
Cinefantastique

The folks at Miramax have gone all out for the Blu-ray release of Sin City.

April 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Apollo Guide

...a gleaming pop revelation, a completely realized vision...

October 31, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
eFilmCritic.com

Eager to blaze trails for desktop moviemaking, what did these artists do? Throw fuel on the fires of viewers' basest appetites.

September 7, 2007
Looking Closer

About as close to geek heaven as a film adaptation has ever been.

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound
Big Picture Big Sound

For those who revel in this kind of adrenaline rush spectator sport, let the games begin.

March 28, 2007 Full Review
Long Island Press

Audience Reviews for Sin City

Think of it like film noir on mescaline, all garish black and white visuals with tough talking cowboy loner types prowling a rat infested urban choas of cigarette smoke, gunsmoke, beautiful bad girls and scum, lots and lots of scum. Beautiful.
July 5, 2007
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Three stories from the corrupt underbelly of Basin City intertwine involving an aging cop trying to protect a young girl from a child rapist and killer, an psychotic ex-con revenging himself upon those who framed him for the death of a hooker and a killer in the middle of a turf war between the mob and a heavily armed red light district after the girls accidentally kill a corrupt cop. Containing all the trademark Noir elements of Frank Miller, Sin City is cinema aping comic books aping cinema. And it works brilliantly. Rodriguez was the perfect man for the job, and his brilliantly dynamic and stylized visuals combined with a frame-by-frame recreation of the original graphic novel does something no other comic book movie has done before; literally brought the source material to life. Using brilliantly crisp black and white photography splashed with vibrant primary colours and inventive CGI that actually plays a relevant part in the action (for a change) Sin City is surely the best looking movie made so far. Populated with super cool characters played by super cool actors spouting super cool hard-boiled dialogue, this film is...well, you get the idea. It may not be to everyone's taste as some of the violence is a little gruesome and it is can be accused of a case of style over substance, but what style it is. A nigh on perfect slice of popular culture.
October 20, 2006
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    1. Marv: I love hitmen. No matter what you do to them, you don't feel bad.
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    1. Becky: Oh, sugar. You've just gone & done the dumbest thing in your whole life.
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    1. Marv: Hell's waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you're here.
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    1. Marv: You're Mother Teresa. You're Elvis. You're God.
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    1. Goldie / Wendy: Bastard! You're gonna pay for what you did to me.
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    1. Jackie Boy: You're making a big mistake, man. A big mistake.
    2. Dwight: Yeah? Well, you've just made a big mistake yourself, you didn't flush.
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