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City by the Sea (2002)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Production Photos Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites Recommendations Sign in to receive personalized recommendations. Sign In Or  Sign Up   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B- Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie "...not bad but should've been so much better." more... C   Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "In its workmanship it aspires not to be remarkable but to be well made, dependable, moving us because of the hurt in the hero's eyes." more... B   Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington "...takes a fascinating true story and turns it into a conventional cop thriller..." more... B- Cincinnati Enquirer Jack Garner "...the high-quality actors and the film's effectively gritty production values generate a surprising amount of life..." more... B   E! Online "De Niro's good, but he struggles..." more... B- filmcritic.com David Levine "...a painfully real look at the emotional toll years of faulty parenting can have on the relationships between fathers and sons..." more... B+ Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen "...an exceptionally acted, quietly affecting cop drama..." more... B+ Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan "What it doesn't offer is a compelling reason to see it." more... C+ New York Post Lou Lumenick "An overgrown - and quite mediocre - TV movie, despite the big names." more... C   New York Times A. O. Scott "As the dialogue turns tearful and speechy, the picture buckles under the weight of undigested significance..." more... C+ ReelViews James Berardinelli "...tells a compelling story in a way that raises issues and questions beyond what one expects from a genre picture." more... B   Rolling Stone Peter Travers "...sad-sack waste of a movie..." more... C- San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle "De Niro has been showing us great stuff for 30 years now, but in this movie he shows us something new." more... B   Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "...it's hard not to notice that the action elements are familiar and rather weak." more... B- Slant Magazine Ed Gonzalez "A ghostly (James) Franco is the standout here..." more... C   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)