We Own the Night Critic Reviews

This is an atmospheric, intense film, well acted, and when it's working it has a real urgency.Read the full review

The movie really belongs to Phoenix, who gives a haunting performance with just the right degree of intensity.Read the full review

Whatever the case, We Own The Night plays like a masterpiece because it skillfully appropriates actual masterpieces, not because it earns the label on its own merits.Read the full review

We Own the Night is defiantly, refreshingly unhip.Read the full review

The movie's climactic car chase is as absurdly thrilling as it is innovative. Set almost silently in a blue-gray daytime downpour, it has a tough, improvisatory danger that makes the movie. If John Coltrane went in for action sequences, he'd have dug this one.Read the full review

With a cast like this, one has a right to expect something amazing, so the fact that We Own the Night is merely "entertaining" might cause disappointment in some quarters.Read the full review

Phoenix is an arresting presence on screen, but don't expect any "Departed"-esque fast talk from Wahlberg, who is oddly inert in a role that should crackle with brotherly ambivalence.Read the full review

Adequately acted and flecked with the required quota of action to satisfy genre fans, pic recalls numerous good police dramas of the 1970s, but mostly in superficial ways that bring nothing new to the table.Read the full review

The story is too patterned and too contrived.Read the full review