"Sin City"

The NYTimes reviews a movie and some other reviews. Sounds like a real howler:

Try this for range: cannibalism, castration, decapitation, dismemberment, electrocution, hanging, massacres, pedophilia, slashings and lots and lots of torture.

So, what do we expect from Disney? OK: Miramax, which I guess is leaving uncle Walt's fold.

The reviewer of the film for movieguide.org - a self-styled "ministry dedicated to redeeming the values of the mass media according to biblical principles" - seemed a tad conflicted.

After cataloguing everything from the film's "pervasive pagan moral worldview" to its "33 obscenities, but no F-words" and every kind of violent act, the reviewer summed up the film as "abhorrent" but worth three stars, calling it "engrossing" and calling Mr. Willis "very fun to watch."

"Filmmaking virtuosity aside," the reviewer hastened to add, " 'Sin City' is despicable."

This might be almost as good as Pulp Fiction.