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68
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63
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Yards, The
Miramax Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for language, violence and a scene of sexuality
Starring
Mark Wahlberg,
Joaquin Phoenix,
Charlize Theron,
James Caan,
Ellen Burstyn,
and
Faye Dunaway
A drama set in the vast New York City subway yards. After serving time in prison for taking the fall for a group of his friends, Leo Handler (Wahlberg) just wants to get his life back on track. So, Leo returns to the one place he thinks will be safe -- home. But in the yards, where his uncle (Caan) now pulls the strings, safe is not how they do business. (Miramax Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Mystery
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
James Gray
Matt Reeves
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
James Gray
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: April 17, 2001
Video: April 17, 2001
Theatrical: October 20, 2000
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
115 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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88
San Francisco Examiner
G. Allen Johnson
Classic in feel and loaded with sumptuous performances.

80
Film.com
Peter Brunette
Don't be misled by claims that you've seen this one already. You haven't, and you should.

80
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
So strong and secure in its remorseless movement that you buy into what's happening, its people so firmly gripped in the vise of fate and their own character flaws.

78
Mr. Showbiz
Michael Atkinson
May not have enough story to sustain its narrative momentum, but Gray just might be our best shot at a new Coppola.

75
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
A work of incompleteness, might-have-beens and moral subtleties befitting a filmmaker named Gray.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The cast is just right for this mini-"Godfather" yarn, and Gray's filmmaking is generally on target even if it does tend to dawdle along the way.

75
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Visually accomplished and wonderfully acted.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It's that ambiguity that makes the film interesting.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Shines whenever we see the performances of Phoenix and Caan.

70
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
For all its incongruities, The Yards is a serious film that strives for a moral complexity and a textural density rarely found in contemporary dramas.

70
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Gray doesn't condescend to his outer-borough characters and elicits pitch-perfect performances from his ensemble cast.

70
Slate
David Edelstein
Most haunting of all is Caan, who has never given a performance this layered.

70
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
Gray's brand of film-buffery manifests itself, simply and irresistibly, as ardent, uncynical movie love.

67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
It almost completely falls apart in a tortuous third act and ultimately leaves us feeling strangely empty and dissatisfied.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
Instead of the usual contrast of black and white, The Yards offers a vivid palette of grays, and it's a far more rewarding color scheme for a movie.

63
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
With one exception (hint: Faye Dunaway), the actors seem remarkably at home in their milieu.

63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
By the end, we're left with a feeling of depletion rather than resolution, which may have been Gray's intention.

63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Won't startle or surprise you but will satisfy your need to see good actors at work.

63
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Caan is so good as a man who watches helplessly as everything he's worked for crumbles around him, that he steals the picture from both Wahlberg and Phoenix, the ostensible stars.

60
Dallas Observer
Bill Gallo
For Caan's shtick alone, The Yards is worthwhile, but we may also be witnessing the emergence, in Gray, of a young filmmaker who's just starting to find the range.

60
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
There's so much that's right in it that its blunders are all the more frustrating.

50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
The only thing the movie lacks is a pulse.

50
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Entombs its characters so thoroughly in a prison of palpably predestined tragedy that one knows from the outset that the very worst that can happen most certainly will.

50
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A drama about corruption in the city's transit system that's not only hard boiled but also dipped in egg batter dialogue and deep fried.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
Keeps sinking into its own grimness.

50
Film.com
Robert Horton
A collection of movie situations, recognizable from the films of Coppola and Scorsese, with a less obvious debt to Kazan.

50
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A great director's losing battle against a goofy script.

40
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Self-importance sinks this one like a stone.
40
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Gray's direction is a languid thing, moving at roughly the speed of a maimed snail, and the cast never really gels.

30
Time
Richard Corliss
So muted it disappears from your view even before it recedes from your memory.

30
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
One more sluggish, artfully framed thriller with Rembrandt lighting set in a New York borough--a kind of picture that's awfully hard to do in a fresh manner.


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