Its chief pleasure is the acting of the big cast, notably Pacino. At 55, he has a haggard, life-wrestling beauty and a street eloquence that has more innocence than De Niro and more sincerity than Nicholson.
– Jack Kroll,
Newsweek,
18 Jan 2013
rotten:
A watchable but never pulsating portrait of mayoral wheeling-dealing.