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10/06/04
Silver City (2004)
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Reviews Counted:124
Fresh:59
Rotten:65
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Heavy-handed and often dull.
Runtime: 2 hrs 13 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: During a gubernatorial race in small-town Colorado, a mystery is uncovered involving a dead body found in a local lake. A private detective, Danny (Danny Huston), is hired by the governor-to-be's... [More]
Starring: Danny Huston, Maria Bello, Billy Zane, Chris Cooper
Director: John Sayles
Reviews for Silver City
The film's saving grace is Danny Huston.
10/06/04
As a John Sayles fan, it pains me to have to tell all of you that his latest film, Silver City, just isn’t that good.
10/06/04
A lifeless production that's underwritten and overcast ... it's preachy and just plain dull.
10/02/04
Did no one advise Sayles that Huston, who played "hotel manager" in Hotel and "herdsman" in The Bacchae (don't ask me!) was entrusted with too much?
10/01/04
Sayles should switch to television, because each new movie now resembles a pilot episode for an HBO series...
10/01/04
Though there's nothing wrong with moral outrage, it doesn't always aid the telling of a complex story. More subtlety might have worked better.
09/30/04
Sayles opts to clutter his saga with a large ensemble of actors and a few too many subplots.
09/24/04
If Sayles’ dialogue sounds elevated, that’s only because it’s being delivered from atop a mile-high soapbox.
09/24/04
Sayles may be after the big picture of poisonous politics in Silver City, but it's the small strokes like Dreyfuss' that bring it to life.
09/24/04
John Sayles’ best film since Lone Star
09/24/04
This is Sayles' least coherent and certainly least satisfying film in quite some time.
09/24/04
Sayles has assembled a large, eclectic, talented cast.
09/23/04
Becomes mired in Sayles' weakness for enormous ensemble casts and murky plots. The guy can tell a great story when he wants to, but I guess sometimes he just doesn't want to.
09/22/04
Sayles' prolix narrative, weighed down with subplots and characters and canvassing many social ills, dilutes the impact of a work that should nevertheless still make an impact on thoughtful viewers.
09/22/04
Packs a helluva punch for those willing to watch and listen.
09/22/04
Long, windy, diffuse in its message and blunt in its satire.
09/22/04
In a role clearly meant to skewer our Commander in Chief, Chris Cooper goes far deeper than impersonation with his antagonistic relationship with words and religious rebirth.
09/22/04
John Sayles gives us a murder mystery highlighted by several cynical observations of current American politics. The plot as expected of Sayles is intelligent.
09/22/04
Slow paced, but interesting, Silver City is a decent flick that entertains primarily because of the political turmoil our own country is in right now.
09/21/04
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