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Badge 373 **½ (1973, Robert Duvall, Verna Bloom, Henry Darrow) – Classic Movie Review 12,092)

Badge 373 (1973): Paramount Pictures and Robert Duvall were hoping for another French Connection, but they had an unexpected box-office flop. Director Howard W Koch’s 1973 American neo noir crime thriller film Badge 373 is […]

Apr, 30

Prince of the City **** (1981, Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach, Bob Balaban, Lindsay Crouse, James Tolkan) – Classic Movie Review 12,067

Sidney Lumet’s 1981 neo-noir crime drama film Prince of the City is an intense, intelligent and extraordinary police epic. Treat Williams gets one of his best roles as Detective Daniel Ciello, the drugs cop who […]

Apr, 17

Still of the Night *** (1982, Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy) – Classic Movie Review 10,887

Writer-director Robert Benton’s sophisticated but old-fashioned 1982 Still of the Night, his follow-on from his 1979 big hit Kramer vs Kramer, reunites him with Meryl Streep for a surprisingly run-of-the-mill Hitchcockian suspense thriller. But, though […]

Feb, 06

21 Bridges ** (2019, Chadwick Boseman, Sienna Miller, J K Simmons, Stephan James, Taylor Kitsch, Keith David) – Movie Review

Chadwick Boseman stars in director Brian Kirk’s run-of-the-mill crime thriller 21 Bridges as gun-happy NYPD detective Andre Davis, who leads the Manhattan manhunt for a pair of cop killer robbers (Stephan James, Taylor Kitsch), after […]

Dec, 01

Night Falls on Manhattan **** (1996, Andy García, Richard Dreyfuss, Lena Olin, Ian Holm, James Gandolfini, Ron Leibman) – Classic Movie Review 6042

Sidney Lumet is on fine form with the excellent 1996 crime thriller film Night Falls on Manhattan starring Andy Garcia as newly elected District Attorney Sean Casey, keen to eradicate police corruption. Writer-director Sidney Lumet is on […]

Sep, 24

Copland [Cop Land] **** (1997, Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro) – Classic Movie Review 910

Writer-director James Mangold’s 1997 thinking-person’s thriller finds Sylvester Stallone giving his best display of acting for years as Sheriff Freddy Heflin, a tubby, hard-of-hearing New Jersey cop who uncovers a deadly web of police corruption […]

Mar, 17

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