Sin City (film)
2005
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Aug 22, 2014 · 43% Tomatometer 192 Reviews 44% Audience Score 100,000+ Ratings The damaged denizens of Sin City return for another round of stories from the mind of Frank Miller. In "Just Another...
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Aug 22, 2014 · Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. It's been nine years since the release of " Sin City ," a collaboration between Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, with its dark crime-novel heart, surreal visual style and some chewy performances by a cast game to aim for the cheap seats.
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By Roth Cornet
Posted: Aug 21, 2014 7:00 pm
It’s been nearly a decade since Robert Rodriguez unveiled his highly-stylized and obsessively faithful to the source material take on Frank Miller’s comic series Sin City. The impact that the director’s aggressive use of green screen had on cinema at large has been oft-discussed, and rightly so. There can be no doubt that Sin City - and a handful of other films released during the same time period - opened up doors in terms of the potential that the technology presented to create expansive, entirely imagined, digitally rendered environments.
The combination of the unique aesthetic and the cadence of the neo-noir dialogue captivated audiences. It was an intriguing blend of boundary pushing visuals and antiquated storytelling; a throwback to a time when women were dames and fellas were men. The film also helped to re-set commonly held perceptions of what a comic book movie could be.
The elapsing years have seen far reaching technological advances, and though Sin City did not usher in an era of comic book movies that mirrored its approach and tone, there is a far wider swath of comic-based films today than there were even ten-years ago. As a result, it’s all-but impossible to recapture the refreshing and innovative experience that the first film offered moviegoers.
For Sin City fans, A Dame to Kill For will likely feel like revisiting an old friend. As with the first, the film interweaves a collection of Frank Miller’s Sin City tales; two pre-existing - "Just Another Saturday Night" and "A Dame to Kill For" - and two original stories written specifically for the film - "The Long Bad Night" and "Nancy's Last Dance". The connective tissue between the four can feel manufactured and clunky in moments and the transition from one interlude to the next isn't quite as seamlessly rendered as it was in the original.
Though it doesn't recapture the sense of innovation of the original, and occasionally feels fragmented, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For provides an entertaining, though familiar, ride for those anxious to revisit that world. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Roth Cornet is an Entertainment Editor for IGN. You can chat with her on Twitter: @RothCornet, ...
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Aug 21, 2014 · The Times critic Jeannette Catsoulis reviews “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.” Weinstein Company and Dimension Films. By Jeannette Catsoulis. Aug. 21, 2014. It has been almost a...
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On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 43%, based on 194 reviews, with an average rating of 5.3/10. The site's critical consensus reads, " A Dame to Kill For boasts the same stylish violence and striking visual palette as the original Sin City, but lacks its predecessor's brutal impact." [61]
Aug 20, 2014 · Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For | Reviews | Screen. By Tim Grierson, Senior US Critic 20 August 2014. Dir: Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller. US. 2014. 102mins.
