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Movie Profile
Sin City
Troublemaker Studios · 2005 · United States - Quentin Tarantino Robert Rodríguez Frank Miller
Sin City is a neo-noir crime thriller based on Frank Miller's graphic novel series of the same name.The film is primarily based on three of Miller's works: The Hard Goodbye, about a man who embarks on a brutal rampage in search of his one-time sweetheart's killer; The Big Fat Kill, which focuses on a street war between a group of prostitutes and a group of mercenaries; and That Yellow Bastard, which follows an aging police officer who protects a young woman from a grotesquely disfigured serial killer.
Genres:
Crime, Thriller, Action, Science Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama
Release date:
2005-04-01
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Rotten Tomatoes
20 Critic reviews
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J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
A worthwhile piece of eye candy.
April 18, 2007 read full article
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Ken Tucker
New York Magazine
If Raymond Chandler and Daffy Duck could have produced a child, Sin City would be their baby.
May 12, 2006 read full article
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Anthony Lane
New Yorker
Can bring more pain than satisfaction.
May 21, 2005 read full article
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Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
In the end, I have to say I liked Sin City almost in spite of myself.
April 07, 2005 read full article
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Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
Robert Rodriguez is one audaciously talented man.
April 04, 2005 read full article
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Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
It's a hard, viciously funny little movie, one with all the subtlety of a billy club. But there's artistry here, too.
April 01, 2005 read full article
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Carina Chocano
Los Angeles Times
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.
April 01, 2005 read full article
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Stephen Hunter
Washington Post
Two hours and six minutes has never seemed so much like two and six-tenths seconds. It's pure pulp metafiction.
April 01, 2005 read full article
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Todd McCarthy
Variety
Miller's world of rough customers living on the wild side possesses a sordid allure, which the directors dazzlingly deliver to the screen.
April 01, 2005 read full article
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Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
To remember Sin City hours later is to remember from a different part of the brain that remembers conventional movies.
April 01, 2005 read full article
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Bruce Newman
San Jose Mercury News
The most gorgeous digital movie ever made. It represents a stunning leap forward in both the technology of digital cinema and the art of filmmaking.
April 01, 2005 read full article
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Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
Sin City is a hard, cold, relentless assault. It's also something Hollywood seems to have given up on: a bold, uncompromised vision.
April 01, 2005 read full article
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Dan DeLuca
Philadelphia Inquirer
Ultimately comes off as an exercise in cold-blooded stylishness, uninvolving and overlong at 2 hours and 6 minutes.
April 01, 2005 read full article
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Geoff Pevere
Toronto Star
You've got to hand it to Miller and Rodriguez. Their Sin City is no place for tourists.
April 01, 2005 read full article
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David Edelstein
Slate
I loved it, I loved it, I loved it. I loved every gorgeous sick disgusting ravishing overbaked blood-spurting artificial frame of it.
April 01, 2005 read full article
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Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel
Watch 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.
April 01, 2005 read full article
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Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
Undeniably exciting, and as close to a comic book as the movies have ever gotten. It's a fun ride.
April 01, 2005 read full article
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Lou Lumenick
New York Post
Unlike anything you've ever seen before.
April 01, 2005 read full article
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Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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.
April 01, 2005 read full article
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Eric Harrison
Houston Chronicle
Except 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.
April 01, 2005 read full article
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