Silver City

Name: Silver City
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Comedy
Released: September 17, 2004
Duration: 128 min
Rating: 47
Cast: Chris Cooper

2004

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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment | Release Date: September 17, 2004 | R

Starring: Chris Cooper

Summary: Set against the backdrop of a mythic "New West," this film that is equal parts scathing political lampoon and sun-stunned neo-noir detective story. (Newmarket Films)

Director: John Sayles

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 128 min

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David Sterritt

Leaving aside Huston's bland acting and a few other flaws, Sayles's politically charged drama raises a rousing number of issues and ideas, inviting us to ponder them and draw our own conclusions. Read full review

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

Kirk Honeycutt

It's a cracking good detective yarn with hints of "Chinatown" and Raymond Chandler, and it's a sharp political lampoon of things we're all reading about on today's front pages. Read full review

David Denby

The plot of Silver City is movieish in the extreme, with filthy abandoned mines subbing for the bars and alleys of urban noir, but it’s no more than mild cheese--“The Big Sleep” or “Chinatown” without the malice, rigorous design, and narrative epiphanies. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

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

Steven Rea

Essentially a series of walking character sketches. The storytelling is slack and lackluster, the cliches rampant. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

Mr. Sayle's portrait is painfully unfunny, and the movie as a whole is a plodding polemic.

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