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Metascore®30 out of 100 | Generally unfavorable reviews

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 63
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    The Spirit is uneven, but its campy adventure provides some amusing, escapist fun. Read full review

  • 50
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    As the vamps, Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson might be posing for a fashion spread with just one note to play -- gorgeous high-bitch mockery. Read full review

  • 50
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    There are good things to be said about The Spirit, but not enough of them to outweigh the bad. Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    What is most striking about The Spirit is how little pleasure it affords, in spite of its efforts to by sly, sexy, heartfelt and clever all at once. Read full review

  • 40
    Los Angeles Times | Sam Adams

    Miller's flat, humorless yarn is set in Central City, a vacant metropolis whose only residents seem to be cops and crooks. Read full review

  • 30
    Variety | Justin Chang

    Plunges into a watery grave early on and spends roughly the next 100 minutes gasping for air. Read full review

  • 30
    Village Voice | Robert Wilonsky

    The fanboys will find room in their heart to forgive the desecration. Everyone else won't care at all. Read full review

  • 25
    Chicago Tribune | Michael Phillips

    Only Sarah Paulson, as the Spirit's doctor and sometime lover, seems to be in there playing the scenes as if she were a human being in a comic book superhero scenario, as opposed to a comic book character stuck in a cruddy movie. Read full review

  • 25
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Nathan Rabin

    The Spirit feels like the follow-up to "Batman & Robin" no one wanted. Read full review

  • 25
    Chicago Sun-Times | 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. Read full review

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