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(1 - 34) of 34 OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten Page   1   2.5/4 "...worth checking out for the performances."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C "It all seemed wasted like DeNiro's once promising career and the once grand Long Beach boardwalk."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "The performances deserve mentioning [because]...there is little else that proves worthwhile."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 2/4 "Past the Road to Perdition lies City by the Sea, Michael Caton-Jones's equally rote tale of father-son friction."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez C+ "A well-acted, but one-note film."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider C "There is a better way to approach this material."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 2/4 "If the film had only bothered to take it up a few notches and buck the superficial confines of a flavorless crime saga, then this vehicle would have been a lot more appetizing in its zealous state."   TheWorldJournal.com   Frank Ochieng C "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."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek "An intense and satisfying drama about the release of guilt, pain, and suffering in the reconciliation between a father and son."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 3/4 "Those who venture into a theater playing City by the Sea will find their two hours well spent"   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/4 "a provocative and gutsy thriller, yet it's hard to escape the feeling that it brings up far more issues ... than it can possibly deal with"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 3/5 "Seeing De Niro back in drama is the high point of this uneven, fact-based film."   Netflix   James Rocchi 6/10 "Okay, but nothing great."   Screen It!   Jim Judy 7/10 "Robert DeNiro is finally back!"   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 5/10 "...a dark, brooding, depressing tale, unrelieved by the humor or irony the writer of a fictional story might have brought to the screen."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio B "Director Michael Caton-Jones evenly deals the father and son parallels as DeNiro works with the complexities of shaping his character via a trio of generations outside his own"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 8 "City by the sea es un recorrido por los vericuetos emocionales emanados de las malas relaciones padre-hijo y sus consecuencias"   Cinenganos   Luis Martinez 2.5/5 "While the movie wears its real-life origins like a badge, the real-life LaMarca story has been so rejiggered in the name of drama that any resemblance to provocative but messy and inconclusive reality is purely coincidental."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 3/4 "That this tale of family woe, resembling the stuff of Greek tragedy, actually happened makes the film absolutely devastating on a certain level."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "We’re forced to watch DeNiro struggle to chew out some of the most painful dialogue ever written... It’s downright heartbreaking."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/5 "A mix of cop-movie cliches and genuinely good acting."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 3/4 "City by the Sea is a good film that yearns to be a great one."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan 3/5 "An ambitious drama that never reaches any of its goals but has some watchable moments along the way."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 3/5 "O Último Suspeito ganha força ao também funcionar em uma esfera adicional: a do drama familiar."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca C "…the maudlin way its story unfolds suggests a director fighting against the urge to sensationalize his material."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux B "While the script is a bit rough and the look of the film is not polished, the movie has an effectively gritty, realistic feel to it."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 1/4 "Essentially a broad and laggard melodrama packed with unconvincing highs and unmoving lows."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf "Like a worn out phonograph needle trying to navigate a broken record, DeNiro is back in the same groove."   Light Views   John Larsen 5/10 Read review   Modamag.com   Brian Orndorf 3/4 Read review   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes Read review   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs Read review   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline B- Read review   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford  (1 - 34) of 34 OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten Page   1