The Spirit is uneven, but its campy adventure provides some amusing, escapist fun.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
There are good things to be said about The Spirit, but not enough of them to outweigh the bad.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
As the vamps, Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson might be posing for a fashion spread with just one note to play -- gorgeous high-bitch mockery.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: A.O. Scott
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 Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
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. But the spirit is weak.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Sam Adams
Miller's flat, humorless yarn is set in Central City, a vacant metropolis whose only residents seem to be cops and crooks.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
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 Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
The movie's cleverest idea is to give the Octopus identical clone henchmen with names like Phobos, Logos, and Huevos, all played by Louis Lombardi with a marvelous fat-boy idiot grin.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Carina Chocana
Doesn't just play like a cheap "Batman" knockoff, it plays like a cheap "Batman" knockoff that knows it's a cheap "Batman" knockoff -- and wants to be sure everybody knows it knows.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Robert Wilonsky
The fanboys will find room in their heart to forgive the desecration. Everyone else won't care at all.Read Full Review »
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