City by the Sea
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: September 6, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 34 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
15
Negative:
3
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30
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Yields the same sort of archetype and the usual results: De Niro's workmanlike in a dismayingly familiar role. Read full review
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New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
The role plays all too easily into De Niro's worst current habits. He's dulled himself out in the service of a phony kitchen-sink pseudo-realism. For De Niro, less has become less. Read full review
30
Rolling StonePeter Travers
The true story of the LaMarcas, well told by the late Mike McAlary in Esquire, has been pounded into TV-crime mush by screenwriter Ken Hixon and director Michael Caton-Jones. Shockingly, the acting doesn't help. Read full review
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