Sin City

Rodriguez brings together outstanding cast and exemplary style in perfect screen adaptation of comic series. Sure, the cinematography and dialogue had all been pre-determined by co-director, Miller, but RR cuts it cleverly a delivers a beautiful hybrid. Uses voice-over to excess and seems a bit to arbitrary, but otherwise, spectacular.

30 Days of Night

Dark, stylized, and loyal graphic novel adaptation. Great performances by Hartnett and George are overshadowed by the fantastically creepy Foster, and out-of-place Huston, not to mention excessive attention to vampire faces. Scariest vampires yet despite silly fast motion seizure-feeding. Well executed action makes up for vampire pacing logic issues. Graaahhhhh!