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Great movie. will see again. Johnny Depp & Forest Whitaker Outstanding

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Metacritic

40
Mar 23, 2021

Ultimately, City of Lies is more James Elroy than docudrama, resulting in a tired police thriller that hitched its wagon to an untenable star.

Metacritic review by Matthew Monagle
Matthew Monagle
Austin Chronicle
50
Mar 16, 2021

Even as its ambitions are laudable in casting a wide net over a variety of societal ills, the film can’t quite muster the will to follow through on those ambitions and instead succumbs too often to cliche when complexity was required.

Metacritic review by Zaki Hasan
Zaki Hasan
IGN
50
Mar 16, 2021

The performances are solid, and the early scenes — recreating the crimes, etc. — are fascinating at a documentary level. Setting up the context is useful, a PD under a cloud and determined to avoid race riots that might return if dirty cops were in on all this. But the rabbit hole closed in for me about an hour in.

Metacritic review by Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Movie Nation