Silver City
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment | Release Date: September 17, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
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10
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60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Pointed, unsubtle political satire. Read full review
60
Film ThreatHeidi Martinuzzi
Slow paced, but interesting. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
Using Dickie Pilager as a stand-in for George W. Bush seems too coy a tactic for these scabrous times. For better or worse, we want the real--or at least, the "real"-deal. Read full review
50
The New York TimesDana Stevens
Nobody in it seems organically connected to anybody else. In a movie devoted to the idea that everything and everyone is connected, this is a serious failing, and it undermines Mr. Sayles's noble intentions. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
There’s definitely ore to be mined in Silver City but Sayles’ pan comes up with only particles of dust. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
A series of miscalculations caused this project to lose its way, until what we're left with is a film that should involve us more than it does. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
Wildly uneven, with long stretches as dull as Dickie. Read full review
50
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
The satire doesn't go far enough. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
Long, windy, diffuse in its message and blunt in its satire. Read full review
50
The New YorkerDavid Denby
The plot of Silver City is movieish in the extreme, with filthy abandoned mines subbing for the bars and alleys of urban noir, but it’s no more than mild cheese--“The Big Sleep” or “Chinatown” without the malice, rigorous design, and narrative epiphanies. Read full review
40
VarietyDavid Rooney
As both political satire and noirish murder mystery, this Newmarket pickup may be too meandering and unemphatic for wide consumption. Read full review
40
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Sayles, it seems, doesn't think much of his audience, and the tone of his discourse is only nominally less pandering than a politician's. Read full review
40
SlateDavid Edelstein
Takes off into the comic stratosphere in its first sequence and then slowly sinks to Earth, made logy by its noble means and Sayles' increasing inability to shoot anything but fat clots of undramatic talk in the most boring manner imaginable. Read full review
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