The Yards Critic Reviews

So strong and secure in its remorseless movement that you buy into what's happening, its people so firmly gripped in the vise of fate and their own character flaws.Read the full review

It's that ambiguity that makes the film interesting.Read the full review

For all its incongruities, The Yards is a serious film that strives for a moral complexity and a textural density rarely found in contemporary dramas.Read the full review

Most haunting of all is Caan, who has never given a performance this layered.Read the full review

By the end, we're left with a feeling of depletion rather than resolution, which may have been Gray's intention.Read the full review

Keeps sinking into its own grimness.Read the full review

Entombs its characters so thoroughly in a prison of palpably predestined tragedy that one knows from the outset that the very worst that can happen most certainly will.Read the full review

A great director's losing battle against a goofy script.Read the full review

A drama about corruption in the city's transit system that's not only hard boiled but also dipped in egg batter dialogue and deep fried.Read the full review