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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Turns out to be a supple, intriguing, and beautifully staged movie. It features Dillon, in his most forceful performance since ''Drugstore Cowboy.'' Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    There's a way to love City of Ghosts, and that's to watch it not as a story that should add up to something, but as a series of little episodes with their own specialness and integrity. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Between the Caan and Dillon characters there are atmosphere, desperation and romance, and, at the end, something approaching true pathos. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Lawrence Van Gelder

    Richly atmospheric and suspenseful. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Manohla Dargis

    For his atmospheric debut as a feature director, the actor Matt Dillon has cast himself as a guy in need of saving. It's a nice fit. Read full review

  • 60
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    A triumph of place over sense. Read full review

  • 60
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    Entertaining when it's really lurid, and Gerard Depardieu is something to behold as the proprietor of a broken-down hotel. He's a spectacular ruin in his own right. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Derek Elley

    Despite a name cast, with Dillon playing an insurance crook, pic is holed by a plot-heavy script that's unsatisfying at a character level and plays like a cut-down version of a much longer, more ambitious saga. Read full review

  • 50
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    It's an actor's film, all right -- peppered with rich supporting performances but unconvincing in the telling. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    The story, a half-baked one about treachery and greed, meanders to an unsatisfactory ending with a punch line that, well, doesn't punch very hard. Read full review

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