City of Men
Sundance | Sundance Channel | Release Date: April 4, 2006
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
87
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: "City of Men" pulses with the kind of energy you don't get often on American television, and the realness of the shot-on-location scene really makes each episode feel like a minimovie. Read full review
91
Entertainment WeeklyDalton Ross
Season 1 Review: Those unfamiliar with the film may find some scenes--like when the actors break character to tell their real-life stories--a bit jarring. [7 Apr 2006, p.54]
90
SalonHeather Havrilesky
Season 1 Review: Unlike anything else you've ever seen on TV. Read full review
90
SlateTroy Patterson
Season 1 Review: It smoothly toggles between working as a crime melodrama and a coming-of-age tale, as a harrowing piece of social commentary and a gentle bit of farce. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterMarilyn Moss
Season 1 Review: The humorous moments are all the more precious because life is so tough in this engrossing series. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
Season 1 Review: It's a work whose immense vitality and a persuasive naturalism overcome its occasional paroxysms of style or hammered-home points. Read full review
80
The New York TimesCharles McGrath
Season 1 Review: The closest American popular television has ever come to this kind of close-up realism is probably the drug-dealing scenes in "The Wire" on HBO, and even they seem a little tame and stagey compared with what takes place in Dona Marta. Read full review
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