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London Boulevard
2011
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Positive Reviews
12
Negative reviews
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Average Rating
2.6
/5
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1.5
Advertisement London Boulevard often comes across as a mash up of different British genres, switching from mob saga to kitchen sink family drama to Gu ..
Av Club
1.5
Just because that gender inequality is lamp shaded in the dialogue, it doesnt mean its not constantly present.
Den Of Geek
2.0
Were left with nothing much but a going through the motions exercise.
Common Sense Media
2.5
But where the film loses strength in its muddled characterizations, it gains potency from how gleefully dark it becomes.
1.5
But no, Ray Winstone as London crime boss Gant roars in to up the ante, and a barrage of fahk you and you cant isnt far behind.
Screen Daily
5.0
No one will be surprised by the way the story plays out, but the pleasures are many.
The Hollywood Reporter
2.0
London Boulevard is a crackingly written, taut and well characterised crime yarn of the kind Americans do better than us.
Telegraph
2.5
And violent it is.Monahan isnt shy about taking his film to brutal extremes.
2.0
It even has a good selection of less familiar 60s rock tracks and a couple of scenes which verge on deliberate black comedy.
2.0
Often, the mood of a crime drama can carry you through, and even past, a films weak elements.
Ny Daily News
3.0
Its far from a perfect film, yet London Boulevard carries itself quite successfully for much of its running time, spinning a familiar story with panac ..
Blu Ray
2.0
Similarly, Winstone is just reading from the Big Book Of Gangster Cliches while Knightley is fine but her character is completely inconsequential and ..
View London
3.8
One of Hollywoods most in demand writers whips up a potent directorial debut with the vicious, spirited gangster drama London Boulevard.
New York Post
3.0
To accentuate the positive, London Boulevard is vintage pulp, with all the elements that make the genre so much fun: preposterous characters ranging f ..
Film Journal International ..
1.0
The directorial debut of the screenwriter who turned a Hong Kong action flick into Scorseses The Departed and transposed Troy Kennedy Martins Edge of ..
Guardian
2.0
Its a film with plenty of front, as they say, but uses up all its energy, wit and ideas in the first 20 or so minutes, before collapsing into a flurry ..
Guardian
4.0
By far too stylized, the film loses itself in this would be dynamic visual style over content and coherence.
Reel Talk Reviews
4.0
Fast paced with great cinematography and an upbeat score, this graphically violent thriller satisfies on every count, delivering more than the predict ..
3.0
Monahan intended the film to be cool, and it is.London Boulevard features a good sense of fun with a gritty pop aesthetic, old school camerawork, plen ..
The Film Stage
2.0
A befuddling muddle that sees a starry cast up to their necks in reheated clichs.
Total Film
2.5
A movie is more than dialogue and a soundtrack. And direction is a lot more than making sure all your favorite parts of your own script make it to the ..
Nj
3.1
Its a mostly entertaining film that never quite reaches the heights it should given the talent involved.
Three Movie Buffs
2.0
Such familiarity doesnt really matter, because its clear that Monahans intention is to celebrate film noir tradition, but this is a case of style over ..
Digital Spy
2.0
Think of Speed or the car chase from Bullitt; think of that first paying audience screaming at that first locomotive coming at them from the screen, 1 ..
Ft
3.5
Make a note of this title; you wont be sorry you tracked it down.
Hollywood And Fine
3.0
Since Guy Richies geezer heyday the laddish London caper movie has atrophied into a dull parade of cliches punctuated by the odd expletive or grisly k ..
Sky
3.0
Like The Departed, theres a ton of classic rock on the soundtrack, but the movie doesnt have an ounce of its menace and paranoia.
Scene Stealers
3.5
Monahan occasionally lets the gears grind a bit too audibly when shifting tones, and the storytelling is often murky.
Dvd Talk
2.0
And there still museums with pay what you wish admission, if not every day, then on certain days weekly or monthly.You just have to know who offers wh ..
New York Time Out
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