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Ben Lyons, At the Movies: Is it campy? Or is it cool? Is it stylized? Or is it corny and cheesy? It doesn't really know. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: What is most striking about The Spirit is how little pleasure it affords, in spite of its efforts to by sly, sexy, heartfelt and clever all at once. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Someone get this man a decent script. Read more
Ted Fry, Seattle Times: The script often plods through sequences of clunky dramatic structure. Comic art may be inherently cinematic, but there's still some ink separating panels on a page from flickers on a screen. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: As a babe-delivery system, The Spirit is a rousing success. In every other sense, it's a pronounced failure. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: How do you critique acting that's willfully bad, a story that's purposefully crazy and dialogue that sets out to be stilted and cliched? You say The Spirit looks great but there's not much else there. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Miller turns The Spirit into a hambone farce. Worse, by hiring well-known actors and indulging their worst impulses, he destroys the tart irony Eisner built into every frame. Read more
Sam Adams, Los Angeles Times: Denny Colt might have come back from the dead, but The Spirit stays cold on the slab. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Frank Miller wrote and directed this adaptation, in a visual style lazily close to that of his Sin City.</i You know the vibe: stark, grim silhouettes, urban decay by the ton, blood that looks pretty because it oozes from a victim's skull in black-and- Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Full of burnt-end romance and 'style,' but robotic at its core. Read more
Frank Lovece, Newsday: Gorgeous cinematography and design can't mask the hollow core and bizarre ugliness of this mishandled comics adaptation. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: What's missing here, sadly, is the script. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: The incomprehensible plot has something to do with a stolen elixir of eternal life. But that's beside the point, since all the director cares about is the film's noirish look and pulp fiction feel. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: Frank Miller on the big screen is like Scratchy or wasabi or a bass player -- he doesn't work on his own. He needs a partner, or some diluting ingredients, or maybe a restraining order. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: This is what Sin City would have looked like without the restraining hand of co-director Robert Rodriguez behind the camera. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Maybe if there was something going with the dialogue -- snappy Chandlerisms, say, or even just sentences that made sense -- the fussy digital artifice of The Spirit wouldn't seem so, well, dispiriting. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The Spirit is an example of what can happen to a comic book-inspired movie when the sense of style becomes so pervasive that it overwhelms everything else, including an unremarkable superhero adventure. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: There is not a trace of human emotion in it. To call the characters cardboard is to insult a useful packing material. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: Miller's distinction as one of the all-time best comic book writers is strong enough to withstand his role in making one of the worst comic book movies ever. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It's not easy to make a thriller that's both incredibly convoluted and intensely boring, laboriously narrated yet befuddled, but Miller -- creator and co-director of Sin City -- triumphs on all counts. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: What a shame that The Spirit isn't nearly as good as it looks. Read more
Jason Anderson, Toronto Star: At which exact point The Spirit hits rock bottom is a matter of debate. Read more
Tom Huddlestone, Time Out: Every once in a while a genuine turkey escapes the coop, bereft of charm or wit, utterly lacking in technical prowess, integrity or intelligence. 'The Spirit' is such a film. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: The Spirit is uneven, but its campy adventure provides some amusing, escapist fun. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: Pushing well past the point of self-parody, Miller has done Will Eisner's pioneering comicstrip no favors by drenching it in the same self-consciously neo-noir monochrome put to much more compelling use in Sin City. Read more
Robert Wilonsky, Village Voice: Miller, comics-writing icon turned director, has rendered comics-industry revolutionary Will Eisner's crime fighter Denny Colt a grim shade of dull -- all talk, no action Read more
Carina Chocano, Washington Post: Good comic books suggest action through abstraction, but The Spirit plays like an overproduced diorama. Read more