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Sin City (Frank Miller's Sin City)

2005

Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller ...

Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Rosario Dawson ...

7.4

121,312

Film noir. Thriller. Action A collection of interweaving stories all based in the corrupt, crime infested hell-hole that is Basin City. Heavily influenced by film-noir, the main storylines concern a hulking brute called Marv, who is seeking the murderer of a beautiful woman who was killed while asleep in bed with him (along with the help of her twin sister); a photographer called Dwight who is callously used by a manipulative woman and seeks revenge, only later ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[It] plays like a convention at the movie museum in Quentin Tarantino's subconscious (...) This isn't an adaptation of a comic book, it's like a comic book brought to life and pumped with steroids (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"'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."	NEU
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"Unlike anything you've ever seen before"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"It's a guaranteed must-see for its generation. 'Sin City' has a long, long shelf life ahead."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Savage, sexy and ferociously funny (...) It’s too much of a good thing (...) A bold, uncompromised vision (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"The synthesis of story, acting and technology is in all ways more satisfying than last year’s similar big-studio experiment, 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow'."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[Everything is] meticulously imitated rather than lived (...) 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' and 'From Hell' didn't work out. 'Sin City' is certainly better, but not by that much (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"Rodriguez's best film by far and a treat for fans of sinful black-and-white noir with a violent twist (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Paul Clinton CNN	"The result is an eye-popping visceral feast (...) Not only did it succeed in pushing a film genre into virgin territory, it may even have created a new one."	POS
United States	Ken Tucker New York Magazine	"Visually stunning (...) One of the most witty, and, yes, moral movies of the year."	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"There's something to appreciate around every corner (...) 'Sin City' engrosses to the point where we're no longer watching actors with names, but the characters they are playing (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Nick Schager Slant	"Any fanboy with an affinity for noir or Miller’s acerbic work will savor its reimagining of hard-boiled ’40s-era crime fiction (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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