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2000
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The Yards
Positive Reviews
27
Negative reviews
11
Average Rating
3.2
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3.0
For a slice of NYC made with imitation cheese.To quote Erica: Whaddayadooinheah
EW
3.8
If you dont take the payoff, someone else will.Fairly nice people can live in this shadowland.
Rogerebert
1.5
But The Yards fails to incite more than a dull unease in its characterizations and audience expectations.
Austin Chronicle
4.5
A sensitive, intelligent and ambitious variation on the traditional going straight story.
Time Out
2.5
The enjoyable stuff occurs, basically, when the movie gives downtime to its characters.
1.5
But it labours, like the earlier film, under the weight of a sombre tone and a formulaic narrative that, in the end, doesnt deliver its promised emoti ..
Screen Daily
2.0
But The Yards fails to incite more than a dull unease in its characterizations and audience expectations.
3.0
Despite all the same path, different movie cliches, there are good points to the film. Performances are all right in line, even if Wahlberg does nothi ..
E Film Critic
2.5
The cinematography, by Harris Savides, is an undoubted demonstration of expertise.Sometimes just above the level of visibility, it meets all too succe ..
San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
Just as well, since the writing here is full of ideas, but gloomily ambiguous and lacking in originality or excitement.
3.0
This is a decent morality tale strapped to a very dark and depressing setting, ultimately salvaged by many top notch performances.
JoBlo
3.0
Lacks the pizzazz of energetic pulp, but doesnt replace it with any compensatory insight or power.
One Guys Opinion
2.8
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz A well presented but grim drama that unravels about halfway through and then falls completely apart in its schmaltzy force ..
Sover
2.5
Unsentimental, non glamorized, and unclouded by the usual overlay of rose colored nostalgia, this is a raw but rewarding motion picture.
ReelViews
3.5
This melancholy crime thriller is suffused with a sense of foreboding before you know a thing about the shady dealings in which its characters become ..
Tv Guide
3.8
But leads Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix and Charlize Theron ground the film squarely in the present, when risks are better in theory than in practice ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.1
Despite its raft of positive attributes, The Immigrant remains a tedious and completely uninvolving cinematic experience from start to finish as Gray ..
Reel Film Reviews
2.0
Dialogue such as that reminds us that, at its heart, this is really nothing more than your typical movie about crime families from its grandiose music ..
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
If youre still concerned about the films appropriateness for anyone in your home, you may want to examine our detailed content listings more closely f ..
Screen It
2.5
By wish five, the films prosaic rhythm (wish, disaster, wish, disaster) irritates.
Independent
2.0
Atmospheric, worthy but dull crime drama, with a largely wasted cast of greats.
View London
2.5
Unfortunately, that doesnt make the film any better than its less restrained movie cousins.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
4.5
Wahlbergs sympathetic portrayal of an unlucky loser is probably the best work that he has ever done.
Internet Reviews
4.0
The Yards is anything but the typical Hollywood slam bam gangster melodrama.
Internet Reviews
4.0
This low key, moody film is superbly performed by a stellar cast.
1.5
However, that doesnt mean home burglaries are a thing of the past.
Observer
3.0
Sadly however the films narrative power seems to falter midway, and the climax doesnt quite deliver the punch the first half promises.
Bbc
3.8
Less a sequel than an extremely loose spinoff which has just about nothing to do with either part of its title, I might add this film wont win over th ..
Mr Brown Movies
4.0
Movies offer us wildly divergent stories with vivid, close up emotions, and so did the six fimmakers we invited to take part in the Envelope Directors ..
Calendar Live
3.1
When the credits roll, its a picture that motivates little more than a shrug.
Spliced Wire
4.5
Grays writing is so smart and his direction so forceful that it gives the material exceptional texture and depth.
Boxoffice Magazine
3.8
Its realism in a fastidiously plausible plot is given energy and life by an exemplary ensemble cast.
Varia Gate
2.5
This is obviously a product of a lot of talented people.The acting is strong (I love this cast!), the characters rich, the direction mighty, even some ..
Ross Anthony
4.4
If Leos silence is his downfall, Willies upward mobility ambition becomes a tragedy all its own.
The Filmy Ap
3.0
All thats missing is seeing Bogie or Cagney or Pat OBrien onscreen.
Dennis Schwartz Reviews
4.5
Self consciously elegiac, The Yards is a slow burning but meticulously crafted family melodrama posing as a thriller.
Bfi
4.5
Gray adds the kind of design and style that make The Yards his own, and casts Mark Wahlberg in an increasingly more impressive light.
Filmcritic.com
4.5
A home, horse barn and 15 acres in Ogden for $339,500 Living on a horse farm in Ogden was a dream come true for the Strohs.The rural oasis is now on t ..
Rochester Goes Out
1.5
Taraji P. Henson tries a little too hard in a predictable, gender switching ..
Ap News
2.0
The Yards feels not just better but more earnest than its predecessor, its style and its drama possessed of greater integrity.
Nicks Flick Picks
1.5
Despite Grays insistence on lighting everything as if this were Don Corleone in a drawing room, The Yards remains a vacant lot.
Boston Phoenix
4.5
SDCC 2018 is in the books and Hal Rudnick was on the on the floor in San Diego checking out the best cosplay, exclusive sights, and more at Comic Con! ..
I Film
4.5
This is a story with Shakespeare league themes greed, betrayal, graft, corruption. Its too much to expect Shakespeare level dialogue, and we dont get ..
San Diego Metropolitan
1.5
The Yards appears greater than the sum of its old sources, in part because its hero wouldnt know a clich if it pressed two Knicks tickets in his hand ..
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