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Mad City (1997) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Mad City (1997) a score of 2.6137 out of 4

based on (75) reviews

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Excellent

(2)

Very Good

(52)

Good

(18)

Fair

(3)

Poor

(0)

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Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)

Go to see it for the acting, for the laughs, for the thought-provoking qualities. But please disregard the stupidity....read the complete Mad City (1997) review at Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)

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San Francisco Examiner (Barbara Shulgasser)

In Wilder's movie, Kirk Douglas plays a hot shot, amoral reporter looking to make it back to big time journalism. He viciously manipulates a story about a man perilously trapped under an Indian ruin into a week's worth of national headlines. As Douglas...read the complete Mad City (1997) review at San Francisco Examiner (Barbara Shulgasser)

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Media-Assault.com (Sean Caszatt)

Dustin Hoffman sure has been in his share of stinkers lately. This movie proceeded the rather poor Wag the Dog into, and out of, theaters late last year. Trying, in a somewhat more controlled way than Wag the Dog, to be a film that teaches the audience...read the complete Mad City (1997) review at Media-Assault.com (Sean Caszatt)

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Tim Voon

An ex-security guard of a state museum (John Travolta) confronts his boss with shotgun and explosives, in a desperate attempt to get his job back. The boss (Blythe Danner) is a bit of a female tight arse, but hey, if I were threatened with a pistol in my...read the complete Mad City (1997) review at Tim Voon