Narc

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Critics' Reviews

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Narc is as cop movie as a cop movie can be.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: A.O. Scott
Narc is convincing, an entertaining, grimy view of the traps of machismo tucked inside a cop thriller.Read Full Review »
75
ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Without a hint of regret, the filmmaker freely borrows from such diverse sources as Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Oliver Stone, and the TV program "C.S.I."Read Full Review »
75
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
The investigation itself must remain undescribed here. But its ending is a neat and ironic exercise in poetic justice.Read Full Review »
75
USA Today: Mike Clark
This may be the most uncompromisingly raw police drama since "Across 110th Street," starring Anthony Quinn and Yaphet Kotto.Read Full Review »
75
Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Patric and Liotta get the chance to do some heavy riffing on themes of honor, sacrifice, selling out and self-destructing, and the bleak, smeared world of drugs and violence is brought to the fore with feverish style.Read Full Review »
75
ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
A no-bull throwback to 1970s action films. It zips along with B-movie verve while adding the rich details and go-for-broke acting that heralds something special.Read Full Review »
70
Village Voice: Michael Atkinson
Hardly a scene goes by without a digitally fractured flashback or spasm of editing punctuation, rupturing the movie's otherwise carefully wrought sense of authenticity.Read Full Review »
70
Washington Post: Desson Thomson
This is a stirring movie, if relentless intensity, handheld camera work, cover-your-eyes violence and ear-splitting yelling matches are what you're craving.Read Full Review »
70
Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
It's a stunner that sadly grows tiresome at the end.Read Full Review »
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