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(1 - 32) of 32 OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten Page   1   "Powerful drug dealers may be evil, but I doubt they're as stupid and oblivious as depicted in 'We Own the Night.'"   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker C "...it's the utter familiarity that keeps We Own the Night from standing out on the screen in the same way it undoubtedly did at the pitch meeting."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 2.5/5 "Gray really does offer nothing new here. We get the same old statement of blood being thicker than watered-down business associations."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron A- "It's a sensational picture, best received by minds open to generous cinematic brush strokes of right and wrong...undeniably thrilling on primitive, fist-clenching level."   eFilmCritic.com   Brian Orndorf C "File this cop family drama movie under films-we-never-need-to-see-again."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "Bobby's decision-making throughout is operatic (with grand gestures and tears and sensational lighting), but also crude and flatfooted."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 3.5/4 "We Own the Night confirms James Gray's position as a major American film director."   Slant Magazine   Dan Callahan 2.5/4 "...suffers from an overly deliberate pace that ultimately prevents the viewer from fully connecting with the material."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair B+ "This is not the usual conventional cops and robbers film that some critics like to call it... ."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3/4 "Taut, intelligent and confidently unpretentious about what it sets out to, and does, achieve within the crime-thriller mold."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman C "It couldn't have taken seven years to write a screenplay this leaden and uninspired. Surely something like this could be churned out in a weekend."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 1.5/4 "Whomever owns it they can keep it cause we've all got better things to do at night than to see a virtually unconscious film that makes Johnny Dangerously look like Angels with Dirty Faces."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress B+ "So meticulous, observant and generous in the details, that I was almost saddened to see the story start up in earnest and inevitably limit the film's scope."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 2/4 "A sluggishly regurgitation of the noteworthy 70's-style cop dramas. The nocturnal naughtiness behind Gray's mean streets saga begs for a compelling ounce of creative daylight"   World Voice News   Frank Ochieng C "Falters under the strain of clumsy plot turns, banal dialogue and cliched characters."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/4 "As cop/crime dramas go, this one offers little that's new but it takes the time to develop the characters and that's where its strengths lie."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli "If anything makes We Own the Night worth watching, it's Phoenix and Wahlberg."   Cinematical   James Rocchi 5/10 "Instead of playing to the strength of its leads, the script almost seems to highlight their weaknesses (in other words, you don't see Wahlberg's abs once)."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 2/5 "haraktires poy tha mporoysan aneta na perasoyn arketo hrono akoma se skoteina syrtaria, mpas kai mporesoyn na skoteiniasoyn arketa oi idioi gia na metamorfothoyn se kati esto endiaferon an ohi diaforetiko"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 2/4 "The whole project feels workmanlike, an exercise in neither offending nor impressing."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik 2/4 "You probably won't hate it, but that's because you probably won't feel much of anything about it"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes "[S]o drenched in raw, ineffable male anger and love... that it howls with authenticity."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2.5/4 "For all the competence in craft, there's no real urgency and distinctiveness to sufficiently mask that we've seen this all before--and indeed we have from Gray himself alone."   Mr. Brown's Movies   Michael Dequina B- "Despite a powerful chase scene and some affecting performances, the movie's retro slant makes it simplistic and superficial."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow B+ "Once again finds Gray breathing gritty, electric life into a conventional tale."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 3/5 "Traz vários bons momentos que o transformam em um exemplar de gênero acima da média, a começar por alguns excelentes diálogos."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 4/5 "I gradually found myself respecting and admiring the film and its creator, writer-director James Gray, for its willingness to observe the rules of classic cinema construction without coming across as too self-consciously retro for its own good"   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 3/5 "As a whole, the film feels both too earnest and overly simplistic in its approach to the various moral dilemmas."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline C+ "With a few tweaks here and there it could have been something special."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 3/4 "Gray keeps his picture interesting with a handful of inspired action scenes"   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell 2/4 "An obviously talented director relying on an obviously limited screenwriter/scenarist."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 32) of 32 OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten Page   1