It's a local-government corruption thriller that doesn't care about logic or consistency or the people watching it.

| Jan 6, 2014

Wahlberg and Crowe. Together at last. So overwhelming. Can't breathe for testosterone. Can't even write complete sentences.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2013

When it comes to long-form tales of political intrigue, television serials are fast encroaching on cinema's patch, and if this very ordinary thriller is the best Hollywood can do, it might as well cede the whole territory.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 1, 2013

When a high-powered cast like this is gathered, you have the right to expect more than mundanity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 1, 2013

It's stolid, it's dogged, it knows where it's going. Back and forth around the same old scenery.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 28, 2013

A thin plot is taken further than it wants to go.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 28, 2013

Top cast, terrible script.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 28, 2013

Somewhere in here there's a cogent, timely attack on the links between business and politics.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 26, 2013

Forget it, Jake, it's no Chinatown.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 25, 2013

A political thriller that's never quite as smart as you wish it were.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 25, 2013

Most of the roles are so ambiguous you end up scratching your head in the final reel, and some of the loose ends are so irrelevant they seem to have ended up on the cutting-room floor.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 23, 2013

What follows is not a review; it's an autopsy...one long (illustrated!) spoiler.

| Jan 22, 2013

The picture comes out swinging with both a conscience and a set of brass knuckles; it also features a Russell Crowe who doesn't, thankfully, sing. What's not to love?

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jan 22, 2013

Crowe, so tanned and coiffed that he looks like he belongs on a copper coin, plays the mayor as a boss out of the '40s, a heartless string-puller who thinks he owns the city.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 22, 2013

[An] overproduced, underobserved, yet agreeably twisty new political thriller ...

| Jan 21, 2013

Did these people - or even these people's people - not bother to read the script first?

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 20, 2013

It is not that Broken City -- boasting a cast worth big expectations -- is bad, exactly. But it is deeply mediocre. When they say television dramas are getting the better of the movies, this is the sort of middling outing that proves it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 18, 2013

The film is a collection of crime noir oddments that don't add up to a full meal.

| Original Score: C | Jan 18, 2013

When any film works, it's a miracle; when it doesn't, it's this.

| Jan 18, 2013

Like the film's shady mayor, "Broken City" is a little too slick for its own good.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 18, 2013