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City Hall
Directed by
Frederick Wiseman
2020
4h 32m
Documentary
7.4
98%
67%
6.5
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A look at Boston's city government, covering racial justice, housing, climate action, and more.
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Cast of City Hall
Marty Walsh
Frederick Wiseman
Director / Producer / Editor
Karen Konicek
Producer
Christina Hunt
Assistant Editor
Gilles Granier
Digital Color Timer
Christina Hunt
Sound Editor
Emmanuel Croset
Sound Mixer
City Hall Ratings & Reviews
The Playlist
Jason Bailey
A reminder that government, for all of its speed bumps and snags, can work. It can help. The people running it just have to want it to.
Rolling Stone
K. Austin Collins
On its surface, in so many ways, City Hall could read as an endorsement. But politics aren't that simple -- and Wiseman's movie most certainly isn't, either.
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
What Frederick Wiseman has been doing for all these years and in all these films is trying to make art of decency and process. In the good ones, he's succeeded. "City Hall" is one of the very good ones.
Chicago Reader
Kathleen Sachs
Frederick Wiseman's documentary offers a hopeful look at political institutions.
Austin Chronicle
Josh Kupecki
While the phrase "required viewing" gets thrown around a lot, I cannot think of another film that plainly and comprehensively lays bare the both the complex apparatus at work, and the people dedicated to serving its populace.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
At 4 1/2 hours, "City Hall" is a demanding film. But it rewards that commitment with an experience that is both hypnotically beautiful and subtly encouraging.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Constitutes a love letter to civic governance, and the notion of democracy, at a time when public discourse seethes with scorn for urban life.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
With "City Hall," his 45th feature, he has composed another epic from a series of intricate, carefully arranged miniatures, a four-and-a-half-hour sprawl of a movie that will leave you admiring its agility and concision.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
I could have watched hours more of people simply talking to one another in auditoriums and across conference-room tables.
RogerEbert.com
Peter Sobczynski
Even in a filmography with more than its fair share of impressive achievements, it deserves consideration as one of Wiseman's greatest.
Vox
Alissa Wilkinson
The result is not a portrait of a city, really. Refreshingly - and maybe even a little surprisingly - it's a portrait of a government that actually seems to be working for its citizens.
RogerEbert.com
Godfrey Cheshire
A fastidious, intelligent, and all but encyclopedic as any of [Wiseman's] previous real-world epics.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
City Hall considers in detail the government's role-and responsibility-in fostering that sense of community, and the connection of that sense to the city's over-all well-being.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
By the time "City Hall" arrives at its breathtaking final shots, Wiseman has crafted such an advanced case for understanding every aspect of local governance that it leads to the impression that America would be a better place if everyone experienced it.
The Daily Beast
Nick Schager
City Hall proves a celebration of the power of storytelling to unite-and, also, a masterful example of it.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
City Hall, in other words, may sometimes try the patience of even a Wiseman devotee. Still, there's method to its patches of mild tedium...
TheWrap
Alonso Duralde
The director champions government and community involvement in an age where reactionaries are still trying to make government small enough to drown in a bathtub and to make individual citizens feel more hopeless and cynical about their elected officials.
Variety
Guy Lodge
The result is both sober and inspiring: an urban progress report taking into account a plethora of government services, scutinized by Wiseman's patient but unblinking eye.
Slant Magazine
Keith Uhlich
Its provocations can seem savage at a glance, but they emerge from an observational tranquility that is uniquely Frederick Wiseman's own.
The Hollywood Reporter
Jordan Mintzer
More than anything, Wiseman is showing us that we are not only watching Bostonians, but Americans, too.
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