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Sin City Review

Other Critics provided by Metacritic.com

Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    74

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 100

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

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

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  • 40

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

    Eye-popping yet ultimately thin and shallow as a page in a graphic novel.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano

    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.

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  • 58

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

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

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The New York Times Manohla Dargis

    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.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Variety Todd McCarthy

    For geeks, action freaks and sensation-seeking teenage boys of all ages, the price of admission will provide a one-way ticket to hard-boiled heaven.

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  • 88

    out of 100

    USA Today Mike Clark

    Occasionally very funny, the picture tends to coast on its cosmetics. A first-rate script might have made it a twisted masterpiece.

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For Families provided by Common Sense Media

not for kids

This extremely violent movie is NOT for kids.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this is an extremely violent movie with constant, intense, and exceptionally graphic battles and all-out butchery and slaughter. Body parts are sliced off (and eaten -- off-camera). People are wounded and killed just about every possible way, including electrocuted, stabbed, impaled, shot, dumped into a tar pit, and sliced up. There are severed heads and other body parts. There are references to child rape and cannibalism. The film also includes nudity, strippers, prostitutes, sexual references, and non-explicit sexual situations. Characters drink and smoke and abuse prescription drugs. They also lie, cheat, steal, extort, and violate as many laws (and commandments) as can be packed into one movie.

  • Families can talk about the enduring appeal of such dark stories and characters and the way that co-directors Miller and Rodriguez use the settings and the camera to create mood and character.

The good stuff
  • rolemodels true0

    Role models: Women are strong and capable but also mostly hookers and/or nude.

What to watch for
  • violence false5

    Violence: Extreme, intense, constant, and graphic violence, torture, suicide, dismemberment, references to cannibalism, child molestation, and rape.

  • sex false5

    Sex: Nudity and sexual references including reference to child rape, non-explicit sexual situations, prostitutes.

  • language false5

    Language: Very strong language.

  • consumerism false0

    Consumerism: Not an issue

  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3

    Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking, smoking.

Fan Reviews provided by

5

Great Movie by redyeah
Fun, sexy, exciting, great visuals, not much more can be said.

5

<3 Jessica Alba <3 by MovieCitySoundtrack23
OMG!!! this movie ruled i loved it!!!! i took his weapon both of them!!! hehe!!!!! i love jessica alba the hot of the hottest!!!

5

Amazing piece of near black n white eye candy!!! by moviefanchris88
This movie rocked so hard. Its classicly dark, and the visuals were amazing! I think Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller outdid themselves on this one. I can't wait till the movie The Spirit comes around. It'll be interesting to see what Frank Miller does with that one. Does anyone know when Sin City 2 comes out?!?

5

wow by huskovich_moviewatcher
this movie rocks b/c of the blood and jessica alba

5

by dweezler

5

by nikkiooleigh

3

by mbrokus

5

by pideb

4

by slugfast17

4

by AVSCOTT40

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