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Yards, The (2000) Rank 1 Reviews
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Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
One more sluggish, artfully framed thriller with Rembrandt lighting set in a New York borough--a kind of picture that's awfully hard to do in a fresh manner. ...read the complete Yards movie review at Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
Time (Richard Corliss)
So muted it disappears from your view even before it recedes from your memory. ...read the complete Yards movie review at Time (Richard Corliss)
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Slate (David Edelstein)
Most haunting of all is Caan, who has never given a performance this layered. ...read the complete Yards movie review at Slate (David Edelstein)
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by Michael Butts on February 12, 2004
Director James Gray has elicited some marvelous performances from a really eclectic ...
by wdanthemanw "wdan... on April 30, 2001
After LITTLE ODESSA in 1994, THE YARDS is quite an impressive second movie of american ...
by "flickjunkie" on April 23, 2001
It is hard to understand why this film couldn't command better distribution than it did. It has a bankable cast, a strong story and a realistic presentation. It is a raw and dark tale about corruption by contractors supplying the transit system in New ...
by Lee Armstrong on December 01, 2008
Director James Gray paired Joaquin Phoenix with Mark Wahlberg in We Own the Night. He also has worked with Phoenix ...
by Hiram Gomez Pardo on June 12, 2005
Three dramatic vertices converge in this smart ...
by Michael Bolts on November 06, 2003
this is a good movie about Mark Wahlberg who comes back after some period and starts working for his friend Joaquin Pheonix and his dad James Caan. anyway while at The Yards someone gets killed by Pheonix and things start to heat up. good performances ...
This is one of those movies that creeps up on you. It starts slowly, but it builds up very well, and I found it only too believable, very affecting, and quite amazingly gripping. Great performances, and certainly it bears some comparison to The ...
by "patsydoc" on May 02, 2002
I've wanted to see this movie for such a long time. I'm pretty sure that this film was limited in release because even when it was out I couldn't find any theater within 50 miles that was playing it...it must have been one of those ...
by carol irvin "c.k.... on January 16, 2002
The acting done by the above named actors is simply superb. That they figure in a romantic triangle together is even better. However, this tale is mostly about the characters' inability to avoid a life either directly in crime or allied to it. As ...
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