In City Island a dysfunctional family learns to function in a fun act of collective contrition. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 20, 2022

A surprising, thoughtful and funny gem.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 19, 2021

The script is an engaging blend of sarcastic wit, cynical insights, and the darkly comical truth about lies.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 29, 2020

I can't help but think of a Wes Anderson movie populated by the real working class family of a prison guard and a secretary instead of caricatures of pretentious intellectuals.

| Original Score: B | Jul 14, 2020

There is nothing not to enjoy about CITY ISLAND.

| Nov 7, 2019

Garcia does a powerful job and his co-stars support him perfectly. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2018

While the film occasionally feels like an overblown sitcom, the cast is excellent and the crazy unfolding plotlines are a joy to watch.

| Feb 6, 2018

Andy Garcia is a pleasant enough guide to almost rate a visit to this City, but all the conflict here lies on the surface.

| Original Score: C | Sep 14, 2010

an enjoyably offbeat slice of amusingly dysfunctional family life

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 9, 2010

An enjoyable film.

| Sep 3, 2010

Wacky film makes smoking, teen fetish part of the joke.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2010

De Felitta chose well by casting 24-year-old actor Steven Strait, who gives the exasperated convict humor, charm, and sex appeal - something that doesn't go unnoticed by Joyce, or many of the women in the audience as well.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 11, 2010

Melding the abundant misunderstandings of a Shakespeare comedy with the New York wit of a Neil Simon play, City Island is a boisterous charmer with a big heart.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 26, 2010

Everybody has a secret and is too dumb to work out what those secrets are, a specious bit of plotting designed to pad out the running time of this shrill farce beyond its natural sit-com length.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 26, 2010

This feature might work better as a television series, but Garcia himself gives the picture some much-needed ballast.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 22, 2010

There's nothing earth-shatteringly new, but you do end up wishing the characters well, and I was happy to have spent time with them.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 22, 2010

I won't make great claims for Raymond De Felitta's film - it hardly makes them for itself - but I will say this for it: as an ensemble acting workout, it exceeds expectations from the top down.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 22, 2010

An at-times marvellous muddle of high farce and low-brow chuckles.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 22, 2010

This isn't a revolution in filmmaking, but a rare kind of comedy where the actors keep it real.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 22, 2010

The script, by dyed-in-the-wool New York indie filmmaker Raymond De Felitta, is like someone's homework for a screenwriting course. The secrets aren't interesting and you know a big showdown at the end is a given.

| Jul 22, 2010