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NUMBERS
Box Office: $22,369,941
VHS Rentals: $6,930,000
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CONSENSUS
Even though the movie is well acted, it sinks under an abundance of melodrama and cliches.
CAST & CREW
Robert De Niro, Frances McDormand, George Dzundza
Directed by Michael Caton-Jones
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SYNOPSIS
New York City homicide detective Vincent LaMarca (Robert De Niro) has forged a long and distinguished career in law enforcement, making a name for himself as a man intensely committed to his work. more...
MPAA RATING
R, language, drug use, and some violence
RUNTIME
1 hour, 48 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Sep 6, 2002
Video: Feb 18, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Warner Bros.
GENRE
Dramas, Thriller, Police, New York City, Fathers And Sons
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official City by the Sea Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
NEWS ARTICLES
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SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "Without [De Niro], City By The Sea would slip under the waves. He drags it back, single-handed."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
 "...they missed the boat."
-- Staci Layne Wilson, FANTASTICA DAILY
"For the first time in years, De Niro digs deep emotionally, perhaps because he's been stirred by the powerful work of his co-stars."
-- Chuck Wilson, L.A. WEEKLY
"Unfortunately the story and the actors are served with a hack script."
-- Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL)
"The underworld urban angst is derivative of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and Goodfellas, but this film speaks for itself."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"The film starts promisingly, but the ending is all too predictable and far too cliched to really work."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"…the maudlin way its story unfolds suggests a director fighting against the urge to sensationalize his material."
-- Rob Vaux, FLIPSIDE MOVIE EMPORIUM
"De Niro and McDormand give solid performances, but their screen time is sabotaged by the story’s inability to create interest."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"It's a testament to De Niro and director Michael Caton-Jones that by movie's end, we accept the characters and the film, flaws and all."
-- Luke Y. Thompson, DALLAS OBSERVER
"City by the Sea is a gritty police thriller with all the dysfunctional family dynamics one could wish for. But how it washed out despite all of that is the project's prime mystery."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"A well-acted, but one-note film."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"De Niro cries. You'll cry for your money back."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"A markedly inactive film, City is conversational bordering on confessional."
-- Steve Schneider, ORLANDO WEEKLY
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"Its strengths and weaknesses play off each other virtually to a stand-off, with the unfortunate trump card being the dreary mid-section of the film."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"O Último Suspeito ganha força ao também funcionar em uma esfera adicional: a do drama familiar."
-- Pablo Villaca, CINEMA EM CENA
"When the first few villians are introduced as "Spider" and "Snake" you know you're in for a real winner, creativity at its peak."
-- John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
"The material and the production itself are little more than routine."
-- Doris Toumarkine, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"If you ignore the cliches and concentrate on City by the Sea's interpersonal drama, it ain't half-bad."
-- Tor Thorsen, REEL.COM
"Earnest but earthbound...a slow, soggy, soporific, visually dank crime melodrama/character study that would be more at home on the small screen but for its stellar cast."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"I found the movie as divided against itself as the dysfunctional family it portrays."
-- David Sterritt, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
"...little more than a well-acted television melodrama shot for the big screen."
-- Christopher Smith, BANGOR DAILY NEWS (MAINE)
"It all seemed wasted like DeNiro's once promising career and the once grand Long Beach boardwalk."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"'De Niro...is a veritable source of sincere passion that this Hollywood contrivance orbits around.'"
-- Anita Schmaltz, METRO TIMES
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ROTTEN 53%
Avg. Rating: 6.5/10 |
"You've already seen City by the Sea under a variety of titles, but it's worth yet another visit."
-- Philip Wuntch, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"All movie long, City by the Sea swings from one approach to the other, but in the end, it stays in formula -- which is a waste of De Niro, McDormand and the other good actors in the cast."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"City by the Sea is the cinematic equivalent of defensive driving: It's careful, conscientious and makes no major mistakes. But what saves lives on the freeway does not necessarily make for persuasive viewing."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"De Niro may enjoy the same free ride from critics afforded to Clint Eastwood in the lazy Bloodwork. But like Bruce Springsteen's gone-to-pot Asbury Park, New Jersey, this sad-sack waste of a movie is a City of ruins."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"A thoughtful, provocative, insistently humanizing film."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"The furious coherence that [DeNiro] brings to this part only underscores the fuzzy sentimentality of the movie itself, which feels, as it plods toward the end, less like a movie than like the filmed reading of a script in need of polishing."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"[City] reminds us how realistically nuanced a Robert De Niro performance can be when he is not more lucratively engaged in the shameless self-caricature of 'Analyze This' (1999) and 'Analyze That,' promised (or threatened) for later this year."
-- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"I liked a lot of the smaller scenes."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"An exceptionally acted, quietly affecting cop drama."
-- Michael Rechtshaffen, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Too long, and larded with exposition, this somber cop drama ultimately feels as flat as the scruffy sands of its titular community."
-- Steven Rea, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
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"A standard police-oriented drama that, were it not for De Niro’s participation, would have likely wound up a TNT Original."
-- Chuck Rudolph, MATINEE MAGAZINE
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* Who are the Approved Tomatometer Critics?
* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "City by the Sea" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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