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By James Rocchi (1,075) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 04 Jan 2009

Violent, sexy superhero flick is all style, no substance…

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By Rob Humanick (476) for Suite101.com (114) on 04 Jan 2009

[There is] no consistency or rhythm to its visual tangents, which splotch about frantically, desperately, like diarrhea spraying about the…

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By Vic Holtreman (121) for ScreenRant (1,013) on 02 Jan 2009

The Spirit is two hours of your life that you'll never get back…

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By Victor Olliver (198) for Teletext (251) on 02 Jan 2009

A movie trailer can give unintended clues as to what to expect - The Spirit's (see it on YouTube if you missed it) is one long piece of chaos…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Shadows on the Wall (2,096) on 01 Jan 2009

This screen adaptation of Will Eisner's beloved comic books is intriguing enough to be watchable, but is so chaotic that it doesn't work at all…

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By Tim Brayton (2,283) for Antagony & Ecstasy (1,911) on 31 Dec 2008

It's not just that it's obvious from the train wreck onscreen that Miller hasn't ever truly directed a movie before; it's hard to tell if he's…

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By Ken Hanke (2,234) for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (2,247) on 31 Dec 2008

It makes sport of both comic books and hard-boiled detective fiction, yet it does so by utilizing and adhering to the conventions of each…

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By Jordan Burchette (7) for Premiere Magazine (318) on 30 Dec 2008

Not charming, but not cynical, The Spirit is wholly unrecommendable, but made with greater care than many movies that are…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 29 Dec 2008

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…

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By Jeff Vice (1,455) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 29 Dec 2008

As one of the film's characters might say, there's bad. There's really bad. There's ridiculously bad. And then there's The Spirit bad…

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By Jason Heck (36) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 29 Dec 2008

The style dazzles, evoking everything wonderful and terrible from film noir and combining it with a likable hero and wonderfully pulpy premise…

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By Graham Killeen (120) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 29 Dec 2008

I'll take the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future any night over this year's spooktacularly puerile, woefully bad holiday action film…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 29 Dec 2008

It's not easy to make a thriller that's both incredibly convoluted and intensely boring, laboriously narrated yet befuddled, but Miller --…

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By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for AV Club (2,778) on 29 Dec 2008

The Spirit feels like the follow-up to Batman & Robin no one wanted…

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By Mike Russell (146) for Oregonian (1,550) on 29 Dec 2008

The Spirit is a loony, embarrassing mess that takes the late Will Eisner's classic comics creation and beats it senseless with a giant toilet…

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By Carina Chocano (358) for Washington Post (9,851) on 29 Dec 2008

Good comic books suggest action through abstraction, but The Spirit plays like an overproduced diorama…

Review of The Spirit (1987)

By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Salon.com (2,725) on 29 Dec 2008

Miller seems to have brought neither his brains nor his heart (both of which we know he's got) to this project. The style is willing…

Review of The Spirit (1987)

By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 29 Dec 2008

Throwing your $10.25 down a storm drain is a better idea; at least that way you won't feel the added self-loathing of wasting more than an…

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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 29 Dec 2008

The Spirit' conclusively demonstrates that a comic-book auteur may be no more a natural filmmaker than a basketball player is a ballerina…

Review of The Spirit (1987)

By Linda Cook (1,442) for Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (1,206) on 28 Dec 2008

All show and no go, The Spirit is a great-looking film with a less-than-memorable story…

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