| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

can be criticised of many things, but wasting locations and local talent is not one of them

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 16, 2005

The surprise is not necessarily that Dillon has a unique voice, but rather that the voice is so bizarrely dark and uninhibitedly exotic.

| Original Score: 3 | Dec 27, 2004

Shows some promise in that it wants to say something, but there are plenty of forgettable moments to go along with it.

Full Review | Original Score: 69/100 | Aug 22, 2004

There's nothing interesting about this half-baked noir plot...

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 27, 2003

The movie fairly oozes with atmosphere, and its cast contains enough colorful characters to make Casablanca blush.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 16, 2003

Matt Dillon is a hero worried about his karma

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 16, 2003

Longtime actor, first-time director Matt Dillon relates an urgency and passion behind the camera, intent on telling us one story while showing us another.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 31, 2003

Dillon is so eager to show the duality of Cambodia, the grace and the grime, that he sacrifices major story elements to do so.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 2, 2003

There is so much to admire in Matt Dillon's City of Ghosts that the feeling left over after watching it is an unsettling sense of disappointment and unfairness.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 28, 2003

Though 'City of Ghosts' can't match its models, it takes us close enough to Greeneland to be a worthy homage and an impressive, though flawed, debut...well worth a look.

| Original Score: B | Jun 18, 2003

While it won't be remembered as great cinema, it is actually a tight piece of film noir.

| Original Score: B | Jun 14, 2003

A bit of exotic neo-noir, clunky in parts and long, but often engaging and artfully atmospheric as well.

| Jun 13, 2003

While the film is not short on ideas or implications, none of them is fully developed, leaving us little but atmosphere and warm whiskey to drink in.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 5, 2003

In the end, it becomes clear that the missing ingredient in City of Ghosts is nothing more than some additional directing experience on the part of Dillon.

| May 30, 2003

A long, winding, but decently layered modern film noir.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 29, 2003

City of Ghosts dons a facade of independent filmmaking, but the core screams Hollywood rehash.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 20, 2003

It's the only film in which James Caan attempts karaoke in Cambodian. You'll want to plan your bathroom break for that scene.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 17, 2003

City of Ghosts doesn't quite work, but it has its moments, and some of them just may be worth the price of admission.

| May 17, 2003