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City of Lies

2018

Brad Furman

Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker, Toby Huss, Dayton Callie ...

5.5

1,274

Thriller. Drama A film based on the book LAbyrinth by Randall Sullivan, about the murder investigations of Tupac Shakur in 1996 and The Notorious B.I.G. in 1997.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"[An] inexplicably dull cop drama (...) Depp is convincingly obsessed as Russell Poole"	NEU
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A muckraking drama that deserves to be seen (...) Christian Contreras' script wrangles things into a shape that makes sense even for a viewer who hasn't given much thought to the mystery in more than a decade."	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Imagine if 'Zodiac' were about Notorious B.I.G, and instead of Jake Gyllenhaal it starred Johnny Depp, and instead of being good it was bad."	NEG
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"In large part due to the stellar work from Depp and Whitaker, this is a valuable and somewhat illuminating look back at the senseless, stunning killings of two rap icons (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"City Of Lies lacks the urgency or rigour to make the story’s underlying issues come alive. The film turns a tragedy into just another police procedural."	NEG
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"There’s a reason there have already been so many documentaries and even a TV series about B.I.G. and Russell Poole. “City of Lies” just doesn’t add anything new to the conversation (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Noel Murray AV Club	"'City of Lies' makes an honest effort but doesn’t get the job done."	NEU
United States	Zaki Hasan IGN	"A scattershot stylistic approach and some questionable narrative choices make the film a mixed bag at best"	NEG

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