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Broken City

2013

Allen Hughes

Mark Wahlberg, Russell Crowe, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jeffrey Wright ...

5.3

9,176

Thriller. Mystery. Drama An ex-cop trailing the wife of New York City's mayor finds himself immersed in a larger scandal. On the eve of a close election, the Mayor of New York (Russell Crowe) hires cop-turned-private eye Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) to investigate his wife’s (Catherine Zeta-Jones) suspected infidelity. But is she screwing someone else, or plotting to screw her husband out of re-election?

	Media	Author	Review
		Justin Chang Variety	"'Broken City' is an evocative and over-ambitious title for a so-so political potboiler that wants to be a gritty, expansive epic of moral and urban decay"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Another January dud. 'Broken City' drops hot-shot actors in a quicksand of clichés and watches them sink (...) Rating: ★½ (out of four)"
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Would have made for a fine film noir 60 years ago but feels rather contrived and unbelievable in the setting of contemporary New York"
		David Hughes Empire	"If this ‘power corrupts’ potboiler had been made in the 1990s — with, say, Andy Garcia, Gene Hackman and Kim Basinger — it would already have felt old-fashioned. Forget it, Jake, it’s no Chinatown. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"

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