"Although officially a Pathe film, Sin Takes a Holiday was made just about the time that Pathe became RKO-Pathe, very shortly thereafter to become the more familiar RKO Radio. It's extremely typical of the kind of film that the company made at the time (and) Constance Bennett was the reigning queen of 'confession' stories at RKO as well as at Warners. Sin Takes a Holiday is a refreshingly straightforward example, spared most of the plot convolutions of the genre; it sets up its basic situation and attacks it head-on via interesting characters and sophisticated dialogue. Bennett is charming, Basil Rathbone overacts a little (not unexpectedly, perhaps!) but it's good to see him in a sympathetic role again, and the film comes to life in the nightclub scenes with their lively period tunes." William K. Everson