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City of Tiny Lights

2016

Pete Travis

Riz Ahmed, Billie Piper, James Floyd, Cush Jumbo ...

4.6

237

Thriller. Drama In the teeming, multicultural metropolis of modern-day London, a seemingly straightforward missing-person case launches a down-at-heel private eye into a dangerous world of religious fanaticism and political intrigue.

	Media	Author	Review
		Gwilym Mumford The Guardian	"'City of Tiny Lights' is let down by an overeagerness to play up its source material, and hampered by unnecessarily showy direction and inadvisable attempts at gumshoe dialogue"
		Patrick Smith Telegraph	"Riz Ahmed shines in this muddled London noir (...) (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Andrew Lowry Empire	"Charmless and saddled with disastrous flashbacks, this doesn’t have the street smarts to play its strongest hand (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"The hitch here is an over-determined and clumsy storyline (...) The flashbacks seem to belong to another movie (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Allan Hunter Screendaily	"The problem with 'City Of Tiny Lights' is a plot that is all too easy to second guess and stretches of dialogue which fail to sparkle"
		Catherine Bray Variety	"An amiable but undercooked neo-noir primarily of interest as a showcase for gifted 'Star Wars: Rogue One' star Riz Ahmed."
		David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] is more absorbing than genuinely suspenseful (...) 'City of Tiny Lights' exerts tension throughout and remains intriguing"

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