That Sayles is able to say these things in the context of a compelling story with well-defined characters makes this one of the early fall triumphs of 2004.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
The movie's strength, then, is not in its outrage, but in its cynicism and resignation.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
The real action in Silver City happens on the fringes, where the mischief is. Daryl Hannah is spice incarnate as Dickie's sexy screw-up sister. Billy Zane plays a lobbyist with insinuating soullessness. And Dreyfuss feasts on the snappiest lines.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
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.Read Full Review »
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 »
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The New York Times: Dana 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 »
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Slate: David 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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Village Voice: Michael 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 »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Essentially a series of walking character sketches. The storytelling is slack and lackluster, the cliches rampant.Read Full Review »
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