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Brooklyn's Finest

Overview


Genre :

Crime, Drama

Release Date :

March 05, 2010 (Limited)

MPAA Rating :

R

Director :

Antoine Fuqua

Starring :

Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Don Cheadle, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin, Jesse Williams, Stella Maeve, Sarah Thompson, Robert John Burke, Shannon Kane, Vincent D'Onofrio, Tawny Cypress

REVIEWS RATE:  Critics  Nothing's perfect, but it's worth seeing.    Readers  4 of 5 [Rate It]

3 of 5

“..you'll feel like you spent two hours scuba diving in a cesspool..”
by Sean O'Connell [Filmcritic.com]
2.5 of 4

“..Ultimately, the film isn't uninteresting..”
by James Berardinelli [ReelViews]
Review rate : C

“..this heated-to-boiling melodrama..”
by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly]
“..The movie is wounded, but it's also too tough to kill..”
by A.O. Scott [NY Times]
“..Simultaneously full of itself and full of shit..”
by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone]
2 of 4

“..practically a reunion special..”
by Rene Rodriguez [Miami Herald]
2.5 of 4

“..made-for-television move is..”
by Tom Keogh [Seattle Times]
2 of 4

“..Just bored and confused..”
by Joe Holleman [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
2 of 5

“..It moves inexorably, painstakingly toward its triple climax..”
by Kerry Lengel [Arizona Republic]
2 of 4

“..It feels increasingly cooked up..”
by Ty Burr [Boston Globe]
3 of 4

“..ironically, or, maybe, not so ironically..”
by Stephen Whitty [Newark Star-Ledger]
3 of 4

“..classical and gritty..”
by Steven Rea [Philadelphia Inquirer]
2 of 4

“..Brooklyn's Finest, like its title, is overly familiar..”
by Claudia Puig [USA Today]
2 of 4

“..an old-fashioned B-movie law-and-order melodrama..”
by Colin Covert [Minneapolis Star Tribune]
3.5 of 5

“.."Brooklyn's Finest" can stand proudly..”
by Joe Neumaier [NY Daily News]
2.5 of 4
Reviewed by Graham Killeen [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]

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