City of Ghosts Reviews

can be criticised of many things, but wasting locations and local talent is not one of them

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

The surprise is not necessarily that Dillon has a unique voice, but rather that the voice is so bizarrely dark and uninhibitedly exotic.

Full Review | Original Score: 3

Shows some promise in that it wants to say something, but there are plenty of forgettable moments to go along with it.

Full Review | Original Score: 69/100

There's nothing interesting about this half-baked noir plot...

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

The movie fairly oozes with atmosphere, and its cast contains enough colorful characters to make Casablanca blush.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

Matt Dillon is a hero worried about his karma

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Longtime actor, first-time director Matt Dillon relates an urgency and passion behind the camera, intent on telling us one story while showing us another.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Dillon is so eager to show the duality of Cambodia, the grace and the grime, that he sacrifices major story elements to do so.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

There is so much to admire in Matt Dillon's City of Ghosts that the feeling left over after watching it is an unsettling sense of disappointment and unfairness.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Though 'City of Ghosts' can't match its models, it takes us close enough to Greeneland to be a worthy homage and an impressive, though flawed, debut...well worth a look.

Full Review | Original Score: B

While it won't be remembered as great cinema, it is actually a tight piece of film noir.

Full Review | Original Score: B

A bit of exotic neo-noir, clunky in parts and long, but often engaging and artfully atmospheric as well.

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While the film is not short on ideas or implications, none of them is fully developed, leaving us little but atmosphere and warm whiskey to drink in.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

In the end, it becomes clear that the missing ingredient in City of Ghosts is nothing more than some additional directing experience on the part of Dillon.

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A long, winding, but decently layered modern film noir.

| Original Score: 3/5

City of Ghosts dons a facade of independent filmmaking, but the core screams Hollywood rehash.

| Original Score: 2/4

It's the only film in which James Caan attempts karaoke in Cambodian. You'll want to plan your bathroom break for that scene.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

City of Ghosts doesn't quite work, but it has its moments, and some of them just may be worth the price of admission.

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Though he has evolved beyond his star peak, [Dillon] remains a strong actor and is a gifted director.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Fortunately, Dillon was smart enough to hire one of our best living crime authors Barry Gifford to co-write the screenplay.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4