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02/13/09
Pride and Glory (2008)
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Reviews Counted:150
Fresh:51
Rotten:99
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: Formulaic in its plotting and cliched in its dialogue, Pride and Glory does little to distinguish itself from other police procedurals.
Theatrical Release:07-11-2008
Synopsis: The son of a New York City police officer, Gavin O'Connor serves as director and co-screenwriter of this tale of family, loyalty, and corruption. The NYPD runs in the Tierney family's blood.... [More]
Starring: Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight, Noah Emmerich
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Reviews for Pride and Glory
The actors in Pride and Glory do their best with this cliched material, but the film is so grim, ugly and miserable that it's difficult to sympathise with even the most positive characters.
02/06/09
I thought this film was a mess.
02/06/09
As a drama, Pride and Glory is too glum, and worse, it doesn't convince.
02/05/09
Director and co-writer Gavin O'Connor is the son of a former New York policeman, and displays a strong grasp of the familial and fraternal ties that bind his characters together.
02/05/09
While its kinetic appeal does have a numbing - if temporary effect - on your critical faculties, television has been much more successful in claiming this territory as its own.
02/05/09
Relentlessly dour, filled with unsympathetic characters, and made out of cardboard melodrama. It's the last of those sins that is unforgivable. [Blu-ray]
01/31/09
It's predictable, it's also escapist entertainment.
01/29/09
...only skims the surface of its characters and offers nothing new in the way of corrupt law enforcement.
01/23/09
Elevated by superb performances, led by Edward Norton and a very chilling Colin Farrell.
12/30/08
What's especially lamentable is that this movie strands yet another exemplary turn by Edward Norton, who once again is superior to the material surrounding him.
11/26/08
What it lacks in subtlety and intelligence it makes up in violence, brutishness, and hackneyed story lines. These are qualities best enjoyed at home.
11/10/08
Pride and Glory is a bleak, boring and hopelessly familiar corrupt cop story that simply does not work despite the determined, top-of-their-game efforts of O'Connor and Norton, not to mention Colin Farrell, Jon Voight and others.
11/07/08
If cop movie cliches are a crime against cinema, Pride and Glory should be under arrest.
11/06/08
passionate performances in a story that is a series of letter-perfect clichés
11/02/08
Loud...
11/02/08
A dramatic, tense story of mixed loyalties in an NYPD family with standout performances by Norton, Farrell, Voight, Emmerich, and Ehle.
11/02/08
...a good film that could have been great.
11/01/08
A well-crafted and sharply plotted version of the genre.
10/31/08
Relentlessly grim, appropriately abrasive and beautifully filmed, "Pride and Glory" recalls Sidney Lumet's heyday. It proves there's still meat left on the bones of bad-cop thrillers, but it wisely doesn't offer a Handi-Wipe after its final course.
10/31/08
Latest News for Pride and Glory
January 17, 2009:
Pride And Glory is anything but. And though rife with brutality and cynicism way too over the top to make sense of it all, the journey there stings with a raw and devastating emotional power. Abu Graib in Washington Heights meets Godfather in blue. 
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January 17, 2009:
Pride And Glory is anything but. And though rife with brutality and cynicism way too over the top to make sense of it all, the journey there stings with a raw and devastating emotional power. Abu Graib in Washington Heights meets Godfather in blue.
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November 07, 2008:
UK Critics Consensus: Was W. Wicked? Is Pride & Glory Proud and Glorious?
This week in the UK cinemas we have Oliver Stones latest presidential dissection, the George W. Bush biopic W. with Josh Brolin in the title role. Also out is Pride & Glory, a... More...
October 27, 2008:
Honest cop tested by Blue Wall of Silence in gritty NYC crime saga.
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