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Asphalt City

Directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire · starring Kali Reis, Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan

  • 7 from the press
  • 9.0 · 1 vote

Asphalt City: reviews

Reviews

9.0 1 vote

What the critics say average 4.9 from 7 outlets

  • 7.5 Chicago Sun-TimesRichard Roeper "A grim foray into the grueling and gruesome work of New York paramedics (...) Sean Penn is great." Read
  • 6.2 Roger EbertGlenn Kenny "It is when the film is at its calmest that it is also most persuasive (...) Sometimes maximum intensity does not yield optimal results (...)". Read
  • 6.0 The TelegraphTim Robey "Intriguingly bleak from the start (...) A disconcertingly compelling journey." Read
  • 4.0 IndiewireDavid Ehrlich "She is too focused on the violence she encounters on the margins of New York City to meaningfully interrogate the mental stress of healing it." Read
  • 4.0 El MundoLuis Martínez "Sean Penn transformed into a parody of himself (...) a film that makes overkill his natural place in the world. A true exaggeration". Read
  • 3.5 El PeriódicoNando Salvá "Her attempts to resemble the films of Paul Schrader, titles like 'Se7en' and countless police dramas are as blatant as the comparison with those references is painful." Read
  • 3.0 La RazónSergi Sánchez "It could also have been entitled "Jesus Christ Superstar, paramedic" (...) its narrative structure is that of a textbook martyrology (...) its staging could not be more effective". Read

Questions about the reviews of Asphalt City

What score does Asphalt City have?
Readers give it 9.0 (1 vote). The critics, 4.9 on average from 7 reviews.
What do the critics say about Asphalt City?
The highest score is Chicago Sun-Times’s (7.5) and the lowest La Razón’s (3.0).
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