Silver City

Name: Silver City
Director: John Sayles
Released: 2004

Synopsis

The discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado.

88
ReelViews
That Sayles is able to say these things in the context of a compelling story with well-defined characters makes this one of the early fall triumphs of 2004.
75
Rolling Stone
The real action in Silver City happens on the fringes, where the mischief is. Daryl Hannah is spice incarnate as Dickie's sexy screw-up sister. Billy Zane plays a lobbyist with insinuating soullessness. And Dreyfuss feasts on the snappiest lines.
70
The Hollywood Reporter
It's a cracking good detective yarn with hints of "Chinatown" and Raymond Chandler, and it's a sharp political lampoon of things we're all reading about on today's front pages.
70
The A.V. Club
Sayles' version of reality is grim, but it provides an enlightening, grounding reminder that there's a far more crucial world of politics going on behind the headlines.
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Using 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.
40
Variety
As both political satire and noirish murder mystery, this Newmarket pickup may be too meandering and unemphatic for wide consumption.
40
Village Voice
Sayles, it seems, doesn't think much of his audience, and the tone of his discourse is only nominally less pandering than a politician's.
30
Time
An uninvolving muddle.