Rotten
Sayles must have felt the need to weigh in on the last election. But if he was going to do it, a little more planning, writing -- and especially casting -- would have helped.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Silver City
2004 · 2h 8m · R
Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
John Sayles
Overview
The discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado.
Director and cast
- John Sayles Director
- Chris Cooper as Dickie Pilager
- Richard Dreyfuss as Chuck Raven
- Thora Birch as Karen Cross
- Danny Huston as Danny O'Brien
- Maria Bello as Nora Allardyce
- James Gammon as Sheriff Joe Skaggs
- Miguel Ferrer as Cliff Castleton
- Mary Kay Place as Grace Seymour
- Tim Roth as Mitch Paine
- David Clennon as Mort Seymour
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
48%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
David Denby, New Yorker
Rotten
Though there's nothing wrong with moral outrage, it doesn't always aid the telling of a complex story. More subtlety might have worked better.
Claudia Puig, USA Today
Fresh
Sayles has assembled a large, eclectic, talented cast.
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fresh
Sayles' 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.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
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