The Yards

What is interesting about Grey's picture is the use of understatement to emphasize the complexity of negotiated relationships in the New York world where mob business and city administration intersect. Wahlberg's comparative lack of expressiveness suits his role as a... Full review

The cast and acting in this crime/drama is great, but the actors are let down by a melodramatic script that is too busy. "The Yards" is a character-driven story, but the problem is that the script has too many subplots... Full review

The yards is a film about the shady on-goings of the contractors in New York City who work to rebuild the city's subway cars. Underneath the suits are ruthless mean trying to get ahead in the busines by whatever means... Full review

The Yards is simply one of those classic movies rare to find these days. Unfortunately it hasn't achieved much success (At least in my country), and that's a crying shame. I really can't see why, because it's got everything that... Full review

Spoilers herein.Some minor chances taken here. It's a new fashion to make actors' pictures. Altman's been doing it for some time, but now we have guys like Anderson and Grey who bank everything on commitment. And these are committed actors... Full review

The Yards is labelled a thriller, at least here in Sweden, but I think that this movie is a drama more than anything else. A very dark drama about crime and family. I was pleasantly surprised when I realised that... Full review

Many consider the film noir to have died in 1958 after Orson Welles made Touch of Evil. It was deemed so perfect that no one really took a stab at true noir again. However, in the late 60's and early... Full review

Imagine a painting hanging in a museum. It's a masterfully rendered portrait of a family, a house in the background. Maybe a lake off to one side. The picture is absolutely flawless, and if you merely glance at it, or... Full review

It is hard to understand why this film couldn't command better distribution than it did. It has a bankable cast, a strong story and a realistic presentation. It is a raw and dark story about corruption by contractors supplying the... Full review

"The Yards" invites you to taste corruption and to witness an imposed morality and then slyly allows you to resolve its escalating entanglements. It is a well-acted morality tale written and directed by James Gray that is as topical now... Full review

There's a scene in Two Lovers , the melancholy mating game drama by writer/director James Gray, that is charged with the same brand of voyeuristic eroticism on display in Atlantic City . ... Full Article

"The Yards" stars Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg are set to re-team in "We Own the Night," a James Gray-directed drama that will shoot in New York in March, according to Variety. ... Full Article

In the best film noir, theres always a sense of doom as the story tightens its grip on the lead and mercilessly pulls him back into the darkness. ... Full Article

Talk about your true grit--"The Yards" is so gritty you can pick cinders out of your teeth as you watch it. That sulfurous smell: Maybe it's in your imagination, but it seems to be wafting out of the screen. ... Full Article

After being imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Leo Handler just wants to get his life back on track, so he heads home to take a job in the New York City subway yards, where his highly connected Uncle... ... Full Article