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Steel City (2006)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:25
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Family Interaction, Independent, Brothers, Fathers And Sons
Synopsis: Films about complex relationships among men are few and far between; even rarer are films about complex relationships among working-class men. Steel City tells the psychologically rich story of a... [More]
Starring: John Heard, Tom Guiry, America Ferrera, Raymond J. Barry
Director: Brian Jun
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Reviews for Steel City
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Awfully low-key yet undeniably engaging... Full Review |
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4/5 |
Steel City is gritty, blue-collar and surprisingly dry-eyed. If it hadn't been a movie, it could have been a song off Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska album. Full Review |
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4/6 |
Many traps await novice filmmakers, but writer-director Jun has bypassed most in his absorbing debut. Full Review |
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B |
Writer-director Brian Jun makes it clear that Steel City isn't about big events, even crucial inciting ones. It's about day-to-day decisions and how they change and inform relationships. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Steel City is a moving look at fathers and sons. [Director] Jun neither romanticizes nor pathologizes blue-collar family life. In this earnest rust belt indie, doing the right thing means tipping the scale of justice. Full Review |
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 2/5 |
Nearly everything about Steel City is pure Indie Filmmaking 101. Full Review |
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3/4 |
The phrase 'small, personal film' can sound like an alibi for a trivial and self-indulgent vanity project, but Brian Jun's well-crafted Steel City embodies the highest promise of the term. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
For big chunks in the middle of the movie, Steel City seems lost and styleless, but it builds a cumulative power as we get closer to learning what's up. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Steel City is one of the most hopeful movies I've seen recently -- not just for its humane, realistic story line (about a small-town family in crisis), but in its very being. Full Review |
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3/4 |
While the territory of Steel City is as well-worn as the roads of this tiny town, the people and performances are interesting enough to warrant the detour. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Steel City may be the only movie released this year that's so observant you can hear what the characters aren't saying. Full Review |
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3/6 |
The stilted dialogue, relying too heavily on speeches, robs the film of believability -- which disappears completely with its happy ending. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
It's not always a success, but the ensemble actors are fine at fleshing out purposely underwritten roles. Full Review |
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3/4 |
In writer and director Brian Jun's film, the story isn't set up so neatly, and, at first, the ambiguity builds tension. Full Review |
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Brian Jun makes a strong feature debut with a blue-collar drama rooted in character and community and focused on the everyday over the dramatic flare-ups... Full Review |
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2/4 |
Excellent performances by a good cast and a fairly authentic look at working-class struggles go only so far in Brian Jun's Steel City, which paints an industrial Minnesota municipality entirely in tones of gray and blue. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
[Director Jun pounds] out a suitably gritty atmosphere, and there's real chemistry between Ferrera and the excellent, quietly expressive Guiry. He's an actor still looking for his big break; this is a fine time to discover him before everyone else does. Full Review |
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