From the desk of The Movie Snob:

Silver City (D). This is not a very good movie. Chris Cooper plays "Dickey" Pilager, a dim-witted, born-again-Christian, frat-boy senator’s son who is running for governor of Colorado. (He plainly studied lots of George W. Bush video footage for this role, and it shows.) While trying film a political ad, the candidate accidentally fishes a corpse out of a lake, and his handler (Richard Dreyfuss) hires a private investigator to find out whether the incident was merely an accident or some sort of dirty trick by one of Pilager’s enemies. The private eye’s investigation is most of the rest of the movie, which I guess is supposed to cast a spotlight on how corrupt politicians are, especially those nasty privatizing, "free-enterprise" Republicans. The mistreatment of undocumented workers from Mexico is also an unsubtle theme. In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll admit that I am quite a bit to the right of center, politically, but this movie’s cardinal sin is not that it’s biased—it’s that it’s boring. No interesting characters, nor plot, not dialogue. Fahrenheit 9/11 had to be better than this.