Drop Dead City

Name: Drop Dead City
Genre: Documentary
Released: April 25, 2025
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 67

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| Release Date: April 25, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: In 1975, New York City is minutes away from bankruptcy when an unlikely alliance of rookies, rivals, fixers and flexers finds common ground, and a way out.

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 103 min

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Owen Gleiberman

Apr 25, 2025

Drop Dead City captures how New York fell into a hole of its own devising, then made an essential correction. But it’s not like this was simply a matter of bad bookkeeping. What New York’s fiscal crisis revealed, for maybe the first time, was a crack in the liberal dream. Read full review

Alissa Wilkinson

Apr 25, 2025

It’s an evenhanded and surprisingly entertaining account of how things got so bad, who was to blame, the way it was fixed (to some degree) and what New York inevitably lost in the process. Read full review

Richard Brody

Apr 25, 2025

Yost is a veteran of historical documentaries, and his experience handling information is apparent; the film tells an enormously complex story of financial fine points and political maneuvering, along with the underlying social and personal backstories, with a deft touch and a brisk sense of wonder. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Jason Bailey

Apr 25, 2025

Drop Dead City marshals a tremendous amount of information and footage, moving at a swift clip with the help of well-chosen interview snippets and deftly cut montages. Read full review

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