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Grindhouse (2007): A Looking Closer Film Forum

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Grindhouse (2007): A Looking Closer Film Forum

Before we join the rush of religious-press reviewers who are condemning Grindhouse outright, let's understand what it is first. Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have a particular nostalgia for films like those they watched growing up. Many of those films were cheap, exploitative, spectacularly bad, and filled

Sin City (2005)

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Sin City (2005)

[2015 Update: Revisiting this post a decade after I wrote it, I find that it's the sort of review that I hope I've learned to write better. You'll see that I've let my frustrations with the film overwhelm my capacity to assess

Anthony Lane on Sin City

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Anthony Lane on Sin City

Here’s The New Yorker's Anthony Lane on Sin City, clever as always: We have, it is clear, reached the lively dead end of a process that was initiated by a fretful Martin Scorsese and inflamed, with less embarrassed glee, by Tarantino: the process of knowing everything about

UPDATED: Sin City responses, reviews

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UPDATED: Sin City responses, reviews

My frequent moviegoing companion Wayne Proctor shares first impressions of Sin City. Plus: Early reviews are coming in.

Sin City: Peter Chattaway has seen it

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Sin City: Peter Chattaway has seen it

And he's “still processing it.” If this is how he “processes,” I can't wait to read the final review. This film tells something like five or six stories, some very short and some a little longer, and they all reflect that grim, morbid, sadomasochistic thing that