rogerebert.suntimes.com - 12/24/2008
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/ / / December 23, 2008 by Roger Ebert "The Spirit" is mannered to the point of madness. There is not a trace of human emotion in it. To call the characters cardboard is to insult a useful packing material. The movie is all style -- style without substance, style whirling in a senseless void. ...
variety.com - 12/18/2008
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variety.com —
A Lionsgate release, presented with Odd Lot Entertainment,
of an Odd Lot Entertainment/Lionsgate production. Produced by Deborah
Del Prete, Gigi Pritzker, Michael E. Uslan. Executive producers, Benjamin Melniker, Steven Maier, William Lischak, ...
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The Spirit Review - Read Variety's Analysis Of The Movie ...
sizzlingpopcorn.com - 12/19/2008
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On behalf of Lionsgate, we are pleased to
present The Spirit iPhone Application which enables tech savvy
fans of the cult graphic artist/film director, Frank Miller, to see themselves depicted in the directors’ iconic style made popular in “300” and “Sin City”. iPhone users are able ...
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Check Out ‘The Spirit’ iPhone Application!
theuniquegeek.com - 12/18/2008
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Let’s get it out of the way. The
Spirit, in wide release Dec. 25th, is not a
straight-forward adaptation of the Will Eisner comic strip. That always seems to be the “concern” of the comic fan, and it rings hollow, a standard ...
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Lead on, Spirit!
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Roger Ebert Bitchslaps The Spirit
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Pulitzer Prize winning film critic Roger Ebert on Frank Miller’s The Spirit:
“The Spirit is mannered to the point of madness. There is not a trace of human emotion in it. To call the characters cardboard is to insult a useful packing material.”
Read the full review on RogerEbert.com.
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Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk —
... [he was an executive producer of the film of his own graphic novel] and Sin City showed a similar elevation of the graphic novel into fantastical style shows," writes Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times. "But they had characters, stories, a sense of fun. The Spirit is all setups and posing, muscles and cleavage, hats and ruby lips, nasty wounds and snarly dialogue, and males and females who relate to one another like participants in a blood oath." ...
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