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Silver City (2004) Rank 4 Reviews
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Christian Science Monitor (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 the complete Silver City movie review at Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)
FilmJerk.com (Edward Havens)
Sayles at the top of his game, utilizing the same multi-story, multi-culture template which made “Lone Star” so captivating. ...read the complete Silver City movie review at FilmJerk.com (Edward Havens)
Harvey S. Karten
Thora Birch, Miguel Ferrer, Michael MurphyScreened at: Review 1, NYC, 8/2/04School children may not know how to read any more, but askany kids what they think of politicians, and somehow, withoutperusing the New York Times or The New Republic, ...read the complete Silver City movie review at Harvey S. Karten
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Silver City may startle some viewers because it doesn't pull punches. It doesn't pretend that politics and business are decoupled, that the little guy can pull off the upset, or that the bottom line is anything other than money. It's ...read the complete Silver City movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
The movie's strength, then, is not in its outrage, but in its cynicism and resignation. ...read the complete Silver City movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
SILVER CITY, the title of John Sayles' latest film, sounds like a pale reflection of El Dorado, the mythical city of gold that European sought way back when. They were obsessed with dreams of wealth beyond imagination and the power it would buy for them. ...read the complete Silver City movie review at Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
Movie Gazette (Anton Bitel)
Film noir washes up against political satire, in this dizzying portrait of the American dream being sold down the river. ...read the complete Silver City movie review at Movie Gazette (Anton Bitel)
Empire Magazine [UK]
Smart, intriguing, funny and sad, with some primo wisecracking dialogue. It's serious stuff, but sassy, too. ...read the complete Silver City movie review at Empire Magazine [UK]
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Eleanor Ringel Gillespie)
Sayles has assembled a large, eclectic, talented cast. ...read the complete Silver City movie review at Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Eleanor Ringel Gillespie)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
John Sayles' "Silver City" can be read as social satire aimed at George W. Bush -- certainly the film's hero mirrors the Bush quasi-speaking style -- but it takes wider aim on the entire ...read the complete Silver City movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
John Sayles has always made political films; they are his bread-and-butter. Yet none, not even Matewan or City of Hope, has been more openly partisan than Silver City, which rips into the anti-environmental policies of the current administration, shows th ...read the complete Silver City movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
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by Michael Brumitt on July 11, 2005
Silver City is another excellent movie from a director who has been focusing on an important topic for a while now: America. Not many people are willing to really explore and examine this topic for what it is because of its sordidness and complexities, ...
by Barry Floyd "Secu... on September 14, 2004
I have never been a major fan of Sayles, but have enjoyed the few films of his I've seen. I was, however, thrilled to have seen this film which is yet another example of how to FIGHT PROPAGANDA in the mainstream through clever independent films. What ...
by Peggy "pab920" on March 10, 2009
this movie tries to cover a lot of issues in a rather shallow manner and enters some subplots that could have easily been left out and would not have been missed. I have to agree w/ the critics that the detective/journalist main character could have been ...
by Cosmoetica "cosmo... on September 18, 2008
Lost in the glare of Michael Moore's 2004 pseudo-documentary Fahrenheit 911 was independent filmmaker John Sayles' far more incisive filmic take on politics called Silver City. While Moore's film was a frontal assault on the George W. Bush ...
by R. Swanson "promi... on June 08, 2007
I found the film very slow for the first half but it picked up a little and I managed to sit through it and actually enjoy it. I think the main problem is that John Sayles cares too much about the subject matter and loses the aesthetic distance it ...
by Wordjunky "Go Vol... on July 25, 2006
I put this movie alongside "The Candidate", "Bob Roberts" and "Wag the Dog" for pointed political commenary that is also entertaining. ...
by Timothy P. Scanlo... on August 23, 2005
This film grew on me.
I first saw it after it was advertised in "The Nation." It had just enough laughs--and mystery--to keep me interested.
Others have gone over the plot. Chris Cooper plays quite a good dimwit--actually no less articulate than the ...
by audrey on May 04, 2005
In John Sayles' latest, Chris Cooper plays Dicky Pilager, running for governor of Colorado and with more than a passing resemblance to George W. Bush. When Dicky finds a corpse while filming a campaign ad, his campaign manager (Richard Dreyfuss) hires ...
by Grady Harp on January 18, 2005
John Sayles thankfully continues to be one of our most controversial filmmakers in the US (City of Hope, Sunshine State, Lone Star, Secret of Roan Inish, Passion Fish, Casa de los Babys, etc). In SILVER CITY he continues his dissection of America's ...
by rocksteady "Al" on October 23, 2004
First, this film has a bias, yes. Is it "propaganda"? -- no. I guess some of the other reviewers are remarkably thin-skinned conservatives who cannot bear the occasionaly parody of GW Bush as portrayed by Chris Cooper. The film does have a definite ...
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