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OFCS Rating: 81% Fresh |
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| "[I]f you go for the dimensionless, porny style, hey, unbuckle and enjoy." |
| Blogcritics.org |
| Alan Dale |
A | "'They don't call it Sin City for nothing.'" |
| FromTheBalcony |
| Bill Clark |
B+ | "It’s hard to deny the imagination on display here, and the specificity of the filmmaking. Sin City is a memorable, disturbing triumph." |
| FilmJerk.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
| "Distraught, ornery, self-critical, these heroes are certainly more "anti" types than straight-ahead." |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
3/5 | "A fun movie? Yes. A cool movie? You bet. But a masterpiece? Not really." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| David Cornelius |
C+ | "It's easy to appreciate the artistry of Sin City... but equally hard to appreciate the film." |
| EDGE Boston |
| David Foucher |
4/4 | "At long last, here is a film that fully justifies why we still love going to the movie theater." |
| Cinemaphile.org |
| David Keyes |
3.5/4 | "Comic, sexy, and ultraviolent -- one of the best films of the year!" |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| David N. Butterworth |
3.5/4 | "If nothing else, you have never seen a movie like Sin City before." |
| Reel Film Reviews |
| David Nusair |
C | "Capturing the full comic book flavor alone doesn't make it a good movie." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
2/4 | "Breathtaking to look at, but its core is without a pulse." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
A- | "The purest and most exquisite conversion of material from one medium to another ever achieved." |
| FilmJerk.com |
| Edward Havens |
3/5 | "Si bien impresiona su deslumbrante estilo visual, luego de un rato no sólo no sorprende sino que las historias lucen irregulares y reiterativas." |
| Uruguay Total |
| Enrique Buchichio |
A | "The film retains not just the look of its source material but its tone, too -- its dark mood swings, its hard-boiled love affairs, its grimly funny violence." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
4/4 | "Not a quarter of an hour could tick away on the hands of time before someone was shot, stabbed, electrocuted, exploded, emasculated, decapitated or eaten. It was beautiful." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
A | "It's a world with its own moral formulation, one that confounds our notions of good and evil, strips them of their conventional meaning, reduces them to the bare essentials." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
3.5/4 | "...a swaggering and ultra-violent flashy film noir with a sordid imagination...[a] colorful crime fantasy that radiates with lurid edginess" |
| Movie Eye |
| Frank Ochieng |
C+ | "The bad-boy equivalent of One from the Heart... the splendor of the images comes to seem pretty vacuous in the absence of any content deeper than the pulpiest pulp." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
B+ | "As close to a museum-quality work of visual art as Hollywood as ever seen." |
| Mixed Reviews |
| Gabriel Shanks |
3.5/4 | "There's something to appreciate around every corner -- the gritty characters, the uncompromising story, and, most of all, visuals to astound and amaze." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
4/4 | "a brilliant paradox: It looks like nothing you've ever seen before, but it's assembled out of parts so familiar they are clichés" |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
1.5/4 | "My own trajectory while watching Sin City--excited, bored, offended...back to bored...roll credits" |
| Perihelion Journal |
| Jay Antani |
3/4 | "Relentless, shocking, and admirably experimental." |
| Aufmuth.com |
| Jeanne Aufmuth |
9/10 | "A grand experiment... It exists merely to see if it can -- just to find out if a distinct looking comic book can be duplicated on screen with live actors." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
| "The issue of honor — the only positive value ever espoused in the comics — is almost entirely absent." |
| Pajiba |
| Jeremy C. Fox |
2/4 | "Sin City's noir trappings are just empty attitude." |
| MovieMartyr.com |
| Jeremy Heilman |
9/10 | "...eye-popping visuals, tremendous fun, delectable dialogue, ultra-cool characters and..." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
3.5/4 | "About as close to geek heaven as a film adaptation has ever been." |
| Big Picture Big Sound |
| Joe Lozito |
92/100 | "It’s violent, it’s sexist, it’s clichéd and it’s trashy. And for once those are all plus-points." |
| FilmFocus |
| Joe Utichi |
8/10 | "For all its excesses, the movie is enormously fascinating, mostly entertaining, and always a delight to the eyes and ears (if not always to the stomach)." |
| DVDTown.com |
| John J. Puccio |
| "pulp fiction so thick and perverse it literally oozes off the theater screen." |
| Light Views |
| John Larsen |
9/10 | "As faithful an interpretation as you’re likely to ever see." |
| Planet Sick-Boy |
| Jon Popick |
3.5/4 | "Su verdadera fuerza radica en una historia que refleja el grado de degradación social, espiritual y emocional al que podemos llegar los habitantes de las grandes ciudades." |
| Moviola |
| Jorge Avila Andrade |
| "An instant movie classic." |
| 3BlackChicks Review |
| Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel |
3/5 | "Too brutal and gratuitous to appreciate the stunning visuals." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
4.0/4.0 | "Not only lives up to its namesake but exceeds... shot-for-shot, frame-for-frame, and depravity-for-depravity. Enjoy!" |
| MovieCrypt.com |
| Kevin A. Ranson |
4.5/5 | "At last, we have a comic book movie that actually looks and feels like a comic book!" |
| 7M Pictures |
| Kevin Carr |
4/4 | "A relentless assault on the senses, jam-packed with stylish visuals, great lines, over the top violence and a surprising amount of hearty laughs." |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
B- | "...Rodriguez's obsession with painstakingly recreating a comic book on screen makes him punch through the medium of film into something with a hollow heart.
" |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
4.5/5 | "SINiestra, pero SINsacional" |
| Cinenganos |
| Luis Martinez |
3.5/5 | "Doesn't so much duplicate Miller's uncompromising black-and-white images spattered with gouts of primary color as cross them with the glistening grays of film noir." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
B- | "Its kinetic energy and embrace of film noir tropes provide a surge of adrenaline and testosterone for the fanboy universe." |
| Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema |
| Mark Pfeiffer |
6/10 | "I have more respect than affection for this
admittedly successful effort to give a film the
feel of a graphic novel." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Mark R. Leeper |
| "[B]reathes with genuine, haunting power because it comes to us here and now, when the real world doesn’t feel so different from [this] stew of immorality and hopelessness..." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
4/4 | "Sin City is a dark, disturbing, enthralling masterpiece." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
B+ | "On the edge between exploitation and artistic statement, saving itself from toppling over with the sincerity of its tone, beauty of its images, and honor of its heroes." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
3.5/4 | "An exhilarating tapestry of valor, selfishness, deceitfulness, and martyrdom." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Nick Schager |
5/5 | "Deixa de ser um entretenimento escapista (embora funcione bem neste nível) e torna-se palco de uma curiosa – e inesperada – discussão sobre as relações entre os sexos." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
3.5/5 | "Looks absolutely amazing, but it remains an exercise in style over substance that never gets beneath our skin." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
B+ | "Sin City marks a substantial leap forward in Rodriguez's film craft...[Rodriguez's vision is] fiercely committed." |
| TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
| Rick Curnutte |
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OFCS Rating: 81% Fresh |
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