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Sin City

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Sin City (2005)
Robert Rodriguez

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
02 Nov 2005 6 min read
On Movies & Media

Anthony Lane on "Sin City"

Here's The New Yorker's Anthony Lane on Sin City, clever as always: “Needless to say, a short course in movie history would teach them that graphic novels themselves are soaked to the bone in a style that was brought to refinement by film noir." “Rodriguez
04 Apr 2005
On Movies & Media

UPDATED: "Sin City" responses, reviews...

Keep checking back to this post, and I'll include some Sin City reviews that are worth reading. Here's the first impression of my longtime friend Wayne Proctor, who is a comic book enthusiast and a big fan of Frank Miller. Wayne says the film is faithful
30 Mar 2005 2 min read
On Movies & Media

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,
24 Mar 2005 1 min read
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