Sin City (2005)

Sin City (2005)
Rating: ★★★★★
Aug 20, 2005Graphic Novel Adaptation/Ultra-Violent Film Noir Tales
Robert Rodriguez's adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novels is groundbreaking and one of the most visually adventurous films in years. A trio of film noir-styled tales where he sets out to replicate the look of Miller's comic panels

300 (2007)

300 (2007)
Rating: ★★★★
Apr 19, 2007Fantasticised Historical Battle/Graphic Novel Adaptation
Zack Snyder's adaptation of the classic Frank Miller graphic novel about the Greek battle of Thermopylae. In replicating the look of the original's panels, Snyder pushes what would otherwise be a standard historical film into something extraordinarily stylised and fantastic

Batman: Year One (2011)

Batman: Year One (2011)
Rating: ★★★½
Jan 20, 2012Comic-Book Superhero/Animation
Animated adaptation of the classic Frank Miller graphic novel, this is dark, psychologically brooding, far more adult than the children's niche it is sold to, and with producer Bruce Timm and his team at the top of their game

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part I (2012)

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part I (2012)
Rating: ★★★
Dec 22, 2012Comic-Book Superhero/Animation
The first of a two-part animated adaptation of the classic graphic novel ever written. The film lacks the same impact because, firstly, it is an incomplete story, and secondly, Frank Miller's ideas have now become so much part of the modern Batman

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part II (2013)

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part II (2013)
Rating: ★★★½
May 6, 2013Comic-Book Superhero/Animation
The second of the two-part animated adaptation of Frank Miller's classic graphic novel. The film is staged as a series of epic confrontations between iconic DC characters and written with a dark bite to emerge much more satisfying than the first part

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)
Rating: ★★★½
Aug 23, 2014Graphic Novel Adaptation/Ultra-Violent Film Noir Tales
Robert Rodriguez makes his return to Frank Miller's classic film noir-styled graphic novels. You keep expecting this to hit in with the astonishing freshness the first film did. Rodriguez and Miller give us more of the same amazing visuals but there is the feeling it is no longer original and new

300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

300: Rise of an Empire (2014)
Rating: ★★½
Mar 8, 2014Fantasticised Historical Battle
Less a 300 sequel or prequel than a parallel story, this offers much the same as before but in 3D and with naval instead of land combat. Seeing Zack Snyder's amazing visuals repeated all over again, all the poses and hyper-masculinity now seem to bubble with an inherent risibility.