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.
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10/06/04
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Silver City (2004)
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Reviews Counted:39
Fresh:17
Rotten:22
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: Heavy-handed and often dull.
Theatrical Release:Sep 17, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $872,141
Synopsis: During a gubernatorial race in small-town Colorado, a mystery is uncovered involving a dead body found in a local lake. A private detective, Danny (Danny Huston), is hired by the governor-to-be's... [More]
Starring: Danny Huston, Maria Bello, Billy Zane, Chris Cooper
Director: John Sayles
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Reviews for Silver City
Top CriticThough there's nothing wrong with moral outrage, it doesn't always aid the telling of a complex story. More subtlety might have worked better.
09/30/04
Top CriticSayles has assembled a large, eclectic, talented cast.
09/23/04
Top CriticSayles' prolix narrative, weighed down with subplots and characters and canvassing many social ills, dilutes the impact of a work that should nevertheless still make an impact on thoughtful viewers.
09/22/04
Top CriticLong, windy, diffuse in its message and blunt in its satire.
09/22/04
Top CriticUsing Dickie Pilager as a stand-in for George W. Bush seems too coy a tactic for these scabrous times. For better or worse, we want the real -- or at least, the 'real' -- deal.
09/19/04
Top CriticAn uninvolving muddle.
09/17/04
Top CriticWildly uneven.
09/17/04
Top CriticSilver City is complex and literate, but if you're looking for a political satire this season, bring your own sense of humor.
09/17/04
Top CriticSilver City does seem more like the work of a nuanced novelist than of a dynamic visual and dramatic talent.
09/17/04
Top CriticA film that should involve us more than it does.
09/17/04
Top CriticSilver City has a detective plot, important themes, clever lines and a passel of intriguing characters, but they're not put together in a way that holds your interest.
09/17/04
Top CriticA terrible disappointment.
09/17/04
Top CriticIf there's one thing Sayles has proved he's not gifted at over his long, respected career, it's comedy.
09/17/04
Top CriticIts implications are so ploddingly obvious, you'll swear you wandered into a dank lecture room where today's topic is The Way the System Works.
09/17/04
Top CriticHeard a good movie lately? John Sayles' Silver City is one you might try.
09/17/04
Top CriticIt clearly hasn't occurred to anyone to try to say something new about these issues; instead we're reassured that we're in known territory.
09/17/04
Top CriticSayles' unabashedly partisan film moseys along in an unhurried fashion, encompassing myriad story lines yet taking the trouble to fully develop each of its many characters.
09/17/04
Top Critic[Sayles] shows how lives can be unexpectedly connected, how hidden agendas can slip in under the radar, how information can travel and wound or kill.
09/17/04
Top CriticWould have been better served with a more dynamic hero and a leaner, darker plot.
09/17/04
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