Critic Reviews
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83
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Narc is as cop movie as a cop movie can be.
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75
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The investigation itself must remain undescribed here. But its ending is a neat and ironic exercise in poetic justice.
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75
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
A no-bull throwback to 1970s action films. It zips along with B-movie verve while adding the rich details and go-for-broke acting that heralds something special.
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75
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USA Today Mike Clark
This may be the most uncompromisingly raw police drama since "Across 110th Street," starring Anthony Quinn and Yaphet Kotto.
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75
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Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Patric and Liotta get the chance to do some heavy riffing on themes of honor, sacrifice, selling out and self-destructing, and the bleak, smeared world of drugs and violence is brought to the fore with feverish style.
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75
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New York Daily News Jami Bernard
What could have been a run-of-the- mill story becomes a superb policier in the hands of writerdirector Joe Carnahan.
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75
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Chicago Tribune Mark Caro
With such skilled filmmaking and committed acting on display, Narc is far more a score than a bust.
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75
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Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
An unusually vicious and unforgiving study of police corruption, Narc is a stylistic throwback to such classic 1970s cop dramas as "The French Connection" and "Serpico," with a 21st century helping of the old ultra-violence.
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75
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New York Post Lou Lumenick
Makes "Training Day" -- which was admittedly pretty tough -- seem like a Disney cartoon by comparison.
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60
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Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis
To transcend cliché, movies like Narc need the passion of a heretic who can take stock characters with their stock predicaments and turn them inside out, the way Curtis Hanson and Quentin Tarantino do. Blood, guts and flash aren't enough.
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25
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Liotta's acting can't redeem senseless violence.
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