Sin City Critic Reviews

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

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

It's a guaranteed must-see for its generation. Sin City has a long, long shelf life ahead.Read the full review

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

Mr. Rourke's performance is quite phenomenal, a case of unquenchable talent bursting the bonds of dehumanized artifice.Read the full review

Sin City draws on the cumulative history of both mediums, creating a pastiche that would have been technologically impossible even three years ago. Its creators invent a queasily intoxicating new world.Read the full review

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

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

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