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Pride and Glory
2008
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Pride and Glory
Positive Reviews
35
Negative reviews
31
Average Rating
2.6
/5
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1.5
The film has exactly two equally unsatisfying modes: goofily melodramatic and perversely inert.
Av Club
3.0
But Pride and Glory is an old style exception, a tightly acted and emotionally bruising corrupt cop family drama that feels like the kind of serious, ..
EW
2.5
Pride and Glory is the kind of film where you feel like you know the words and ought to be singing along.
Rogerebert
2.5
Pride and Glorys commentary on law enforcement vice and decencyas well as its positioning of women as the arbiters of, and impetuses for, moral clarit ..
3.5
(Daniel Hertzberg for The Post) The on screen banners known as chyrons were once flat, artless labels that were about as exciting as an airport arriva ..
3.5
If Pride does eventually devolve into a hyperbolic windup, it delivers a series of visceral wallops along the way that lift it notches above standard ..
Screen Daily
2.0
Visually, the film is crisp and detailed (its shot by cinematographer Declan Quinn), yet the performances, though solid, are less than extraordinary.
4.0
The cops in Pride and Glory are real, and except for the violent gunplay and occasional drug use (requisites for every stereotypical New York cop flic ..
Paste Magazine
2.0
Now that performance is more embarrassingly over the top than the one that he delivers here but the scary thing is that it really isnt that much more ..
E Film Critic
1.3
Pride and Glory is more than just lousy; its an amalgam of every bad tendency of the current cinema, stitched together into a single 125 minute monstr ..
San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
Its an eminently serviceable thriller, then, one that sketches a convincing portrait of brotherhood among New Yorks Finest amid moments of effective h ..
3.0
Pride and Glory doesnt quite get around to reinventing its genre or adding anything to the conversation, but its a solid piece of work, buoyed by grea ..
Cinema Blend
2.0
As he digs deeper, Ray finds Jimmy is the center of a crew of bad apples who intimidate, rob and bully the neighborhood, and who are linked to a power ..
Ny Daily News
2.0
Its hard to get all of the details right, which is why most movies dont work, and why its much easier to goose the audience with a defenseless infant ..
Philly
2.5
Maybe its time to hang up all that reverence for the movies of the 70s, the so called halcyon days when Hollywood let filmmakers experiment with edgy ..
Philly
1.0
How ironic that a movie filled with police officers should end up feeling like a hostage situation.
Village Voice
2.8
Unfortunately all the tension it builds on and the logic of its story completely falls apart during its over the top ridiculously violent climax.
Sover
3.1
It wants to be different; yet, in the end, the elements that separate this police corruption film from those with similar themes and subjects are thos ..
ReelViews
2.0
Laura: Anyone who has seen a decent amount of movies will know what Pride and Glory is going to deliver within the first few minutes of the producer/d ..
2.0
Laura: Anyone who has seen a decent amount of movies will know what Pride and Glory is going to deliver within the first few minutes of the producer/d ..
3.8
Oddly enough, the least enjoyable aspect of the film is the all important game that concludes the story if only because it often seems to transpire in ..
Reel Film Reviews
2.0
Grim, abrasive, and hard to watch, full of swaggering men shouting at each other like high school drama students who have just learned how to be vulga ..
Eric Ds Nider
3.5
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Screen It
3.0
This bad apple cop drama is the kind of movie that Sidney Lumet used to make in the Seventies and Eighties, and it hasnt evolved a great deal since.
Independent
3.0
The View London Review out ofstarsRunning time:minsWhen four New York City cops are murdered in a crack den ambush, Chief of Detectives Francis Tierne ..
View London
3.0
Pride and Glory is an underpowered movie with a powerhouse cast.Because of studio politics, it is just now being released after languishing for two ye ..
Cs Monitor
1.9
THE corrupt cop drama Pride and Glory con cludes with a solemn dis claimer informing us that what we have just seen is not to be mistaken for true eve ..
New York Post
2.0
Clumsy pacing, a confusingly directed narrative, ineffective handheld camerawork and a would be gritty look that seems almost gauzily soft focus at ti ..
Film Journal International ..
1.9
Unfortunately, all that does is remind us how much better Martin Scorseses Oscar winning criminals and equally crooked cops thriller was than this mes ..
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
2.5
This isnt a feel good genre, granted, but does it have to feel this bad
Boston
3.0
It is also long and drawn out and swings between the convoluted and the predictable.Even so, the result has a certain dynamism.
Smh
1.0
Bottom line is that this isnt even engaging trash; its bloated, boring, bad and utterly depressing.
Mountain X
4.4
A gritty thriller in the bloodline of Sidney Lumets compelling New York City cop stories Serpico, Prince of the City and Dog Day Afternoon, it also of ..
Star Tribune
2.5
Theres nothing really wrong with Pride and Glory, apart from an excessive degree of brutality, but theres nothing terribly revelatory about it either.
Toronto Star
2.0
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Emanuellevy
1.0
Grotesquely, the picture finally appears to suggest that corruption issues can be healed with a good old fashioned barroom punch up.
Guardian
0.0
Its a great cast.But Gavin OConnors film is as dark visually as it is morally, and despite its plethora of policemen not much cop.
Daily Mail
3.5
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Salon
3.8
Being the fifth annual go round for this durable splatter franchise, this film has really no power to change any minds: existing fans will more than l ..
Mr Brown Movies
1.9
Pride and Glory is the latest in a longtoo longline of crime dramas about dirty cops.
The Movie Boy
2.5
But the series has grown up, relatively speaking, at last providing melodies that split the difference between stage tunes and pop radio, as well as d ..
Chicago Tribune
2.0
Nothing in Pride is nearly that vulgar, but none of it is particularly exciting or engaging, either.
Las Vegas Weekly
4.0
Still, this is a minor cavil in a film with so much generosity of spirit, one that celebrates what brings us together rather than the stuff that pulls ..
Total Film
1.5
The Curse of La Llorona cast members Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez and Linda Cardellini, along with director Michael Chaves, share some personal La ..
Calendar Live
3.0
OConnor manages to put us right in the center of the moral conflict at the heart of his story and with several first rate actors (even in the lesser r ..
Hollywood
3.0
The family drama might have resonated if the film seriously dealt with the stakes and the consequences, but the climax resorts to dramatic hysteria an ..
Seattle Pi
2.0
Pride and Glory works better as an actors showcase than it does as a well worn genre thriller.
Coles Mithey
2.5
The thoughts and emotions the movie stirs up in the viewer makes it one of the more powerful documentaries of the year, one that youll probably rememb ..
3.3
But the combination of weariness and determination feels real coming from.Expected, but still enjoyable.
2.5
Pride and Glory leaves its actors hanging with cliches they cant bring convincingly to life.
Groucho Reviews
3.0
In other words, Pride and Glory is a movie full of actors improvising their idea of how cops in a Scorsese flick would talk.Its a special sort of cart ..
Oregon Live
1.9
We could get all postmodern Tarantino about it and celebrate the cliches, skip the boring drawn out dialogue scenes, and watch only the parts that are ..
Movies Tv Guide
1.5
Its an uncharacteristically unconvincing performance in an unconvcincing film.
The Age
3.0
This effort is equally familiar but, once again, is made just about watchable thanks to its starry cast.
Mirror
3.5
Worse, as highly paced and played as it is, its too predictable to be given the weight of importance promised by the heavyweights in the cast.
Varia Gate
3.0
This story isnt saying anything new, and at its most topicalthe depiction of troubled race relations between cops and New Yorks Hispanic poorit feels ..
Abc
3.8
Once it was finally made, Pride and Glory spent the better part of two years sitting on the shelf, ping ponging between release dates.Now that its fin ..
Christianity Today
3.1
This high body count affair begs to be compared with The Departed but is simply too formulaic and cliche ridden to measure up favorably with that Osca ..
News Blaze
4.5
Like being ordered to have long hair and smile on stage, but wondering how to smile with a trombone in your mouth.Or repeatedly told youre not good en ..
News Blaze
2.0
A superlative demonstration of a brotherhood of the badge stranglehold, rooting itself in outstanding character composition to alleviate the worry of ..
Brian Or Ndorf
4.4
In a way, its about blood to blood done in a grandly overheated and legitimately, often stunningly tragic style.
The Filmy Ap
1.9
Pride and Glory Ed Norton stars as Ray the good cop haunted by his past who needs to get back in the game (if you think that sentence was full of anno ..
Waffle Movies
2.0
Corruption is to blame and volatile brother in law Colin Farrell is at its dirty core.
Sky
2.0
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2.5
I hope you have a few minutes to spare for the unsolicited observations of an especially cranky film buff.My complaint concerns movie trailers that sa ..
Chron
2.0
Edward Norton plays a good cop on a bad force in this formulaic thriller.
Metro
3.5
Share this listing Genre Drama, Family Producer Gregory OConnor Distributor New Line Cinema Release Date Oct 24, 2008 Release Notes Nationwide Officia ..
Ny Mag
2.0
Otherwise its a badly made movie of a plot seen too many times and not worth the price of a theater ticket.
Review Express
2.0
Is that supposed to show camaraderie.Its just a lot of noise, and feels like a generically exciting opener, since everybody loves football, right
Can Mag
3.0
But throwing a cast this impressive at a story this predictable in a genre this tired is something of a waste.
Orlando Sentinel
2.0
What this unfortunately means is that new iterations of the genres familiar formulas must either be told in a new way or with actors and filmmakers at ..
Movies Ign
2.5
Even the weakest episode of TVs The Shield owns Pride and Glory outright: This is the kind of movie so relentlessly derivative, you can figure out the ..
Miami
3.8
We only learn bits and pieces, not enough to have made it a major plot point.
Crazed Fan Boy
3.1
Mr. Voight is good as the airy, slightly out of it patriarch, and Mr. Farrell always plays a great bad boy.Mr. Norton plays Ray with a weary self righ ..
Washington Times
3.8
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Rossiter Drake
3.8
The characters arent all that great, the comedy is flat, but the numbers are so darn fun. Probably the best thing to do is wait for the DVD and just s ..
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