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38 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Total FilmJames MottramTotal FilmJames MottramNot as groundbreaking as the original, nor as expansive as all the best sequels are. But with some excellent cast additions, and Miller on murky form, this still sizzles to the touch.
- 60EmpireJames WhiteEmpireJames WhiteA Dame To Kill For shares some of the downsides of the first, particularly dubious female characterisation. But this retains the gritty, gruelling vice-grip on graphic-novel noir that made Sin City so enjoyable.
- 60The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinSin City 2 glowers and sulks and is determined to show you the best bad time you’ve had in years. It’s neither high art nor noir, but it’s what a Sin City film should be.
- 58The PlaylistDrew TaylorThe PlaylistDrew TaylorIf you’re not looking for reinvention and loved the first "Sin City," then you'll probably love this one too. It's a gorgeous-to-look-at, brain-splattered case of "more of the same."
- 50McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger Moore"A Dame to Kill For” isn’t the shock to the system “Sin City” was. But whatever its plot repetition and warmed-over tough talk cost it, this is still a movie like few others you’ve ever seen, a 3D slice of Nihilistic noir that will have you narrating your own guts and guns story on the drive home, chewing on a toothpick as you do.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyAs an exercise in style, it's diverting enough, but these mean streets are so well traveled that it takes someone like Eva Green to make the detour through them worth the trip.
- 40Village VoiceAmy NicholsonVillage VoiceAmy NicholsonGreen is sexy, funny, dangerous, and wild -- everything the film needed to be -- and whenever she's not on-screen, we feel her absence as though the sun has blinked off.
- 38Slant MagazineChris CabinSlant MagazineChris CabinWhereas a single, stinging one-liner would have sufficed Jacques Tourneur or Fritz Lang, Frank Miller's overcompensating flood of pulpy dialogue only renders his characters flat and sans empathy.
- 30VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangIt takes at least a sliver of human interest to make a noir pastiche more than the sum of its influences, and anything resembling authentic feeling has been neatly airbrushed away from this movie’s synthetic surface.
- 10TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeFor a film loaded with decapitations and gun-toting ladies in bondage gear, Sin City gets really tedious really quickly.