Where to watch
Each link opens a search on that service. Checked 13 October 2026.
Streaming data from JustWatch
Broken City
2013
· Movie
· 109 min
D
MEANRANK
52/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5054
- IMDb #4385
- Rotten Tomatoes #4625
- Metacritic #4146
- Letterboxd #4855
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4876
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4579
- Metacritic Critics #3479
- Metacritic Audience #4616
- Criticker #3199
- Kinopoisk #4345
- AlloCiné #3841
- Trakt #4209
Every rating
26–74
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 26, highest is Google on 74. Critics average 38, everyone else 55.
See the most agreed on films →An ex-cop, now a private investigator, is hired by the mayor of New York City to tail his wife, whom he suspects of having an affair. He quickly uncovers the affair, but also realizes he is being used as a pawn in a much larger and more dangerous game of corruption and power between the mayor and a political rival.
Details
- Director
- Allen Hughes
- Writer
- Brian Tucker
- Studio
- 1984 Private Defense Contractors, Inferno International, Regency Enterprises, Black Bear Pictures
- Released
- 18 January 2013
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $56.0M
- Box office
- $34.7M
This title elsewhere
Cast
Full cast (37) →
More like this
Beyond the numbers
All lists →
30 October 2026
Denzel Washington is more than an actor: a global Black cultural icon
How global visibility, artistic freedom and a commanding public presence gave his career a meaning that reaches beyond the films.
29 October 2026
Why Batman works without superpowers—and when the films forget why
Fear, money, detective work and moral limits: four Batman films test what makes Bruce Wayne worth watching.
29 October 2026
Five great directorial debuts, ranked for what is already on screen
Citizen Kane, The 400 Blows, Get Out, Reservoir Dogs and Following: first features judged without borrowing greatness from the careers that followed.
29 October 2026
TV shows with Black female leads: four series worth arguing about
Insecure, Queen Sugar, Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder, ranked for character writing, dramatic range and the lives they make room for.
29 October 2026
TV shows with the best song choices: five different ways to get it right
The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The O.C., Peaky Blinders and Euphoria: what their songs do beyond making a scene sound good.
8 October 2026
Leonardo DiCaprio's films, ranked—and the performances inside them
Twenty-one selected films, with a closer look at the acting: comic timing, self-invention, wounded authority and the effort that sometimes shows.
