Sin City

A film noir for the twenty-first century, this crime drama is based on Frank Miller’s much-loved comic-book series, an elegant, violent, bleak, and sexy chronicle of various seamy underworlds. A grizzled cop (Bruce Willis) has vowed to keep a showgirl (Jessica Alba) alive, while a crook (Mickey Rourke) is out to avenge the death of his lover, Goldie. Benicio Del Toro, Brittany Murphy, Elijah Wood, and Alexis Bledel bring other Miller characters off the page and onto the screen, filling the dancehalls and buying the bullets in a story with as many twists and turns as a pole dancer.