Racial Profiling Report Finds Cops Still Racial Profiling

Austin Police Department annual report shows a disproportional number of Black Austinites arrested, injured

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March 18, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Letters at 3AM: The Script Needs a Rewrite

Cinema history as it's been commonly taught is just plain wrong

"...only the screen can convey, including some very Keystone-ish cops and a Mack Sennett-like chase involving many, many people...."

Sept. 25, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

21 Bridges

Chadwick Boseman brings Manhattan to a halt as a corruption-busting cop

"...sneak right back out. When a group of off-duty cops crosses their paths, however, Michael and Ray are forced..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

16 Blocks

Richard Donner still has it. 16 Blocks may be a formulaic good-cops/bad-cops actioner, but it’s rarely stereotypical.

"...still has it. 16 Blocks may be a formulaic good-cops/bad-cops actioner, but it’s rarely stereotypical. In another director’s hands,..."

March 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Brooklyn's Finest

Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, and Don Cheadle star in this clichéd police drama that's capped by an outlandish third act.

"...are let down by this film’s rudimentary and cliché-ridden script by first-timer Michael C. Martin. Fuqua’s visual flash and..."

March 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

National Lampoon's Senior Trip

"...way that film's did. But every time Senior Trip cops a bit from Animal House -- or Bill and..."

Sept. 15, 1995 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Ninth Life

"...porn tapes, blackmail, hermetic nightclubs, fatuous art consumers, cynical cops and loaded guns. It all sorts itself out, barely,..."

May 31, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Triple 9

Grimy policier is an electrifying muddle with killer cast

"...a major bump on an Atlanta freeway, necessitating an off-script exit in which the perpetrators are almost caught literally..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

21 Jump Street

Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum go back to high school in this new take on the old TV series.

"...version of the popular Eighties TV show about undercover cops posing as high school students blasts the material into..."

March 16, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

2 Fast 2 Furious

"...thin, and just sort of hanging around), and the cops, well, the cops are clueless and loud. (And I’m..."

June 6, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars

"...who's being picked up by a bevy of space cops, including former Species babe Henstridge and Guy Ritchie favorite..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Traffic

"...policymakers in our nation's capital to the dealers, users, cops and DEA agents on the streets, and everyone in..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Late Night

Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling spark and bond in this timely and charming media satire

"...Kaling's subtly satirical script is fearless in its depiction of the minefields of..."

June 7, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Bad Samaritan

David Tennant plays Hannibal Lecter, which is less fun than it sounds.

"...Good Deed (a much more apt title for the script by Apt Pupil adapter Brandon Boyce), Bad Samaritan's protagonists..."

May 4, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Go Faux!

The fake perils of Pop Rocks in Web series Never Do This

"...local filmmaker and creator of the popular Web series Script Cops – understands one of the cardinal rules of..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Screens Feature by Ashley Moreno

Rush Hour 3

It's The Bourne Ultimatum's evil twin, relying, as it repeatedly does, on tired, cookie-cutter, cliché action set-pieces.

"...film: He and his flunkies torture returning intercontinental buddy cops Los Angeles Detective Carter (Tucker) and Hong Kong Inspector..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Art of Dying

"...from its teenage protagonists who can't go to the cops for fear of revealing their culpability to the bouncing,..."

May 24, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Interview

"...a scene from a special Franz Kafka-produced episode of Cops. A tired, haggard-looking man (Eddie Fleming, played by Hugo..."

April 14, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Go

"...drugs, and then, through an unlikely scenario involving fetishes, cops, and Amway, ends up burning the dealer and fleeing..."

April 9, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Clockers

"...Lee Joint that feels more like a mainstream Hollywood cops-in-the-'hood picture and less like one of Lee's recurrent soapboxes:..."

Sept. 15, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Destiny Turns On the Radio

"...Vinnie Vidivici (Allen Garfield), Julian's tangles with both the cops and Tuerto's goons, the sudden appearance of Julian's dad..."

May 5, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Exit to Eden

"...it work. When she isn't having to indulge the script's taste for bathos, she exhibits a sly strength and..."

Oct. 21, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Street Knight

"...achievements as a writer. Given no help from the script, with a vacuum as star, this silly tale about..."

March 19, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

Knight Moves

"...is flung into the mix to assist these small-town cops perform some serious psycho brain-picking. Soon she's pontificating like..."

Jan. 29, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Inside Man

Although with Denzel, Jodie, and Clive in tow it would be difficult to go wrong, Spike Lee and screenwriter Russell Gewirtz have created a truly original film from various shopworn genre clichés.

"...in on it, but screenwriter Russell Gewirtz's cunning, tight script doles out droplets of information at a painfully slow..."

March 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kangaroo Jack

"...biggest advance for an idea ever. Not for a script, mind you -- just an idea. At the time,..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Run All Night

Liam Neeson reunites with his Unknown and Non-Stop director for another action ride

"...a New York kingpin with no shortage of dirty cops and deadly assassins at his disposal...."

March 20, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Did You Hear About the Morgans?

Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker play a feuding New York City couple who rediscover their love while out West.

"...ship them to Wyoming. In the non-rom-com world, most cops might have them pore over fat books of mug..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Grand Theft Parsons

This film version of the legend of Gram Parsons’ missing body lacks soul.

"...over the coffin, and dodges several pursuers, including the cops, Parsons’ stepfather (Forster), and Parsons’ money-grubbing girlfriend, Barbara (Applegate)...."

Aug. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Murder by Numbers

"...suspicion, even as all material evidence points elsewhere. The cops' hunch is accurate. As with Hitch's classic Rope, the..."

April 19, 2002 Movie Review by Russell Smith

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