Sin City Critic Reviews

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Boston Globe | Ty BurrAdd Critic to Favorites

Tarantino may have nicked the title first, but this is the real ''Pulp Fiction," with all the drama and the dead ends that implies.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

This isn't an adaptation of a comic book, it's like a comic book brought to life and pumped with steroids.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites

Glued tightly from page to screen, Sin City is so seduced by the visual possibilities of sin that style becomes its own vice.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Carina ChocanoAdd Critic to Favorites

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.Read the full review

ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites

The most visually inventive comic book adaptation to make its way to a movie screen.Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

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.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalleAdd Critic to Favorites

A movie unlike any other.Read the full review

Slate | David EdelsteinAdd Critic to Favorites

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.Read the full review

The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk HoneycuttAdd Critic to Favorites

Eye-popping yet ultimately thin and shallow as a page in a graphic novel.Read the full review

The New York Times | Manohla DargisAdd Critic to Favorites

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.Read the full review

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