Pride and Glory Critic Reviews
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Based upon 13 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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Everything in this good-cop/bad-cop action drama is shrouded in gray and attended by wailing. This isn't a feel-good genre, granted, but does it have to feel this bad?Read the full review
It follows the well-worn pathways of countless police dramas before it.Read the full review
Edward Norton is in top form as Ray, a burned-out detective whose investigation into the deaths of four cops leads him to suspect his brother-in-law, Officer Jimmy Egan (Colin Farrell, also terrific).Read the full review
The movie is as histrionic as it is ham-fisted, a bad combination that leads to scenes such as the one in which officers threaten to torture a baby to get their point across.Read the full review
The final 15 minutes are so awful that it's difficult to believe that the bulk of the film is actually decent.Read the full review
Its value is unquestionable as drama and moral provocation.Read the full review
A single 125-minute monstrosity of a cop movie.Read the full review
The stark drama harkens back to Sidney Lumet classics like "Serpico" and "Prince of the City"-filmmaking that went after an unadorned, jagged realism, with acting to match.Read the full review
Not especially good, but there is enough rough artistry in Mr. O’Connor’s direction to make you wish the film were better.Read the full review
Norton is infamous for rewriting scripts and acting as a de facto director on his movies yet he seems lost and defeated here.Read the full review
