...a decent-enough endeavor that often feels like it should be much, much better.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 16, 2023

Director Harold Becker captures the political rhythms of the big city and keeps the rather complicated plot comprehensible. But audiences need to pay attention; this is not a by-the-numbers urban thriller.

| Aug 7, 2019

Its chief pleasure is the acting of the big cast, notably Pacino. At 55, he has a haggard, life-wrestling beauty and a street eloquence that has more innocence than De Niro and more sincerity than Nicholson.

| Jan 18, 2013

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

An ambitious but unsatisfying meditation on the morality of power.

| Original Score: C | May 5, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jun 26, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 22, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 25, 2005

Has all the ingredients for a solid drama but instead comes out a half-baked disappointment.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 22, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 5, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 26, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 30, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 17, 2003

Convincing drama about the moral ambiguity of contemporary politics.

| Aug 21, 2002

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

A watchable but never pulsating portrait of mayoral wheeling-dealing.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 1, 2000