We Own the Night Reviews



  • We Own the Night
    • Genre : Action, Thriller
    • Release Date :
    • MPAA Rating : R
    • Duration : 117 minute(s)
    • Production Budget : 28
    • Studio : Columbia Pictures
    • Official Site : http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/weownthenight/
    • Reviews Rate
      Nothing's perfect, but it's worth seeing.

    • Readers Rate
      4 of 5

Movie Reviews

  • Until a pair of ludicrous plot twists throw it off its rails, writer-director James Gray's "We Own the Night" is a first-rate urban thriller and family drama
    2.5 of 4 by Jack Mathews [NY Daily News ]
  • the film rather bumbles along aimlessly until some guns start going off
    2 of 5 by David Mercier [FilmJudge ]
  • It's not that it's so terrible, but it is terribly similar to so many other police dramas at the movies and on TV
    2 of 4 by Peter Howell [Toronto Star ]
  • delivers some of the visceral thrills inherent in the crime-drama genre
    2 of 4 by Rene Rodriguez [Miami Herald ]
  • defiantly, refreshingly unhip
    3 of 4 by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone ]
  • a competent crime drama with a heavyweight cast and some standout sequences
    Review rate : B by Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch ]
  • Review rate : B+ Reviewed by William Arnold [Seattle Post-Intelligencer ]
  • Review rate : A- Reviewed by Brian Orndorf [FilmJerk ]
  • 3 of 4 Reviewed by Wesley Morris [Boston Globe ]
  • 2.5 of 4 Reviewed by Michael Machosky [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ]
  • 2 of 4 Reviewed by Susan Tavernetti [Palo Alto Online ]
  • Reviewed by A.O. Scott [NY Times ]
  • Reviewed by Kevin Crust [LA Times ]

Reader's Reviews

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