As Mayor Bill de Blasio confronts a pair of hostile police unions convinced that he is responsible for the deaths of two police officers Saturday, he is reliving a conflict familiar to past mayors rather than reaching the absolute nadir of relations between City Hall and police. (observer.com)
Even now, though, it's hard to find anyone who'll really go to bat for the film as anything other than a new nadir in Burton's creative slump. (indiewire.com)
It is listless and painful, with fakey gore and dialogue that reaches nadir even for an auteur never known for his pen. (filmfreakcentral.net)