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06/24/06
Kansas City (1996)
59 %
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Reviews Counted: 34
Fresh: 20
Rotten:14
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Robert Altman's hometown gets the director's signature treatment in this jazz-infused mobster tale set in the 1930s. KANSAS CITY takes place in the jazz-drenched, depression-era milieu of the eponymous city, focusing on a 24-hour... [More]
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte, Michael Murphy
Director: Robert Altman
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A minor work in Altman's oeuvre that can't bridge the gap between its larger issues--sharp inequality, American political process--and the two women at its center that are not interesting as characters or actresses (Jason Leigh and Miranda Richardson)
09/21/07
Robert Altman brings us an effective, if minor, crime film filled with the jazz sounds of Count Basie and Lester Young.
05/26/06
Altman looks back at his hometown in an unsentimental, hard-nosed way.
02/04/06
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08/18/04
Altman gets so caught up in the jazz music that he forgets to concentrate on the story
04/23/04
Robert Altman having fun, and it features a performance by Jennifer Jason Leigh that has to be seen to be believed.
01/29/03
Another spunky film in a series of Robert Altman portraits of the failure of the American Dream.
08/27/02
The film moves with the slowness of an opium daze, and it transmits its plot information with the incremental dit-dot-dash of a wire message.
06/05/02
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05/12/01
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