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Catch a Fire
Phillip Noyce explores the havoc and repercussions caused by white interlopers toward indigenous peoples in this straightforward account of real-life black South African activist Patrick Chamusso and the white Boer police agent, who hunts him.
"...South African activist Patrick Chamusso (Luke) and white Boer police agent Nic Vos (Robbins), who hunts him with Terminator-like..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Death of a President
More sleight of hand than persuasive drama, this what-if story about the aftermath of a presidential assassination is technically seamless but dramatically hollow.
"...not prove especially shrewd about American racial politics or police procedurals, and Death of a President quickly grows more..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Don
Not reviewed at press time. Bollywood film about a widowed father in need of cash who is recruited by the police to masquerade as the leader of an international gang of thieves.
"...in need of cash who is recruited by the police to masquerade as the leader of an international gang..."

Oct. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Illusionist
Surprisingly, this atmospheric movie starring some of the greatest actors of our time is a dull and enervating bore.
"...double-edged task of making the ineffable rational is the police inspector Uhl (Giamatti), who becomes the stand-in for the..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

World Trade Center
This is not the 9/11 film we expected from Stone, who tells the fact-based story of two individuals who somehow survived the collapse of the World Trade Center and with a remarkable economy of expressionistic detail and bombast.
"...painstakingly accurate story of the two trapped Port Authority police officers, John McLoughlin (Cage) and Will Jimeno (Peña), is..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Strangers With Candy
The high school comedy of co-creators Dinello, Colbert, and Sedaris is completely over the top in its audacity and absurdity.
"...and Sedaris rivals The Simpsons and Team America: World Police in its audacity and absurdity. The jokes are nonstop..."

July 21, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Why We Fight
Jarecki’s canny and somewhat overwhelming documentary paints a grim historical picture of war profiteering run amok.
"...when deemed necessary with less bellicose sobriquets – i.e., “police actions”) and the funding and arming of myriad “friendly..."

March 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hoodwinked
Animated retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood story has sass but little imagination.
"...amphibious detective Nicky Flippers (Stiers), along with the ursine police chief (Xzibit) and an avian cop (Anderson). Each character..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Separate Lies
Julian Fellowes is two for two: The English actor’s first big screenwriting credit, Gosford Park, netted him an Oscar, and with this directorial debut, he again demonstrates a mastery of British uppercrust dramas.
"...turns, the narrative continually narrowing down not into a police procedural, but rather into an clear-eyed accounting of the..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
A singularly dreadful example of what can happen when potentially capable comedians check their brains at a committee meeting and go slumming for dollars.
"...titular "he-bitch") thrown out a window, beaten by Dutch police, and derided as a "doped-up cracker." Elsewhere in this..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Hostage
Bruce Willis is called back to active crime-fighting duty in this new thriller.
"...to the countryside to take a job as the police chief of sleepy Bristo Camino after making a bad..."

March 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Enduring Love
This creepy tale of a stalker and the object of his affection is adapted from an Ian McEwan novel.
"...anyone in this movie suggest that Joe visit the police? A restraining order would have been a logical choice...."

Nov. 19, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cellular
Feels like a B-picture, but a smart, finely tuned one that wouldn’t have been out of place in Roger Corman’s mid-Seventies stable.
"...better of it and enlists the aid of local police sergeant Bob Mooney (Macy). Things go wrong, and then..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Danny Deckchair
Aussie import is sweet but as emotionally ethereal as a Splenda meringue.
"...far away in the back yard of a small-town police officer (Otto), with whom he promptly falls in love...."

Aug. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Twisted
Ashley Judd thriller is routine at best.
"...Pellegrino and Camryn Manheim. As newly minted San Francisco police inspector Jessica Shepard, Ashley Judd is as cute as..."

March 5, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Out of Time
Denzel does a Southern-fried potboiler.
"...as ever as harried Matt Whitlock, the chief of police in a dismal Florida beach town who discovers all..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Sea
"...a randy black ram who’s been tormenting the local police, and you have a tale that’s often compelling and..."

June 20, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Naked City
Unions Slam Police, Fire Cuts
"...of the Austin Association of Professional Firefighters and Austin Police Association gathered June 5 to decry potential cuts to..."

June 13, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Law and Order
"...documentary about the wide range of duties involved in police work...."

March 26, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

John Q.
"...veins; and Liotta is so slimy as an inept police chief that he nearly glistens. (Furthermore, a couple of..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Super Troopers
"...shroom-binging and partner-swapping; the result plays like a mid-Eighties Police Academy: The Backwater Burg Years. One could do worse...."

Feb. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Rush Hour Two
"...crowd-pleaser: Two parts interracial buddy hijinks, one part pedestrian police procedural, one part gleefully racist jokes (“I'll bitch-slap you..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Sugarland Express
"...an escaped convict and his wife who lead the police on a car chase across Texas in order to..."

Aug. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kiss of the Dragon
"...story has Li as Detective Liu Jian, the HK Police Department's “supercop” (and in Asian cinema is there ever..."

July 6, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Animal
"...of good-natured sweetness with his character Marvin Mange, a police evidence clerk who just can't seem to get things..."

June 8, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

What's the Worst That Could Happen?
"...personages (Truman Capote? Andy Warhol?) as a fey, bewigged police detective with an Ice Capades fetish, a press-on beauty..."

June 1, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Sugar & Spice
"...the narration of Lisa, the bitchy B-squad captain and police informant (played unappealingly by Sokoloff, from The Practice). Lisa's..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Third World Cop
"...is also Henzell's nephew), the film is a hackneyed police story, rife with clichés, implausibilities, and weak performances, although..."

July 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sleepy Hollow
"...from recalcitrant New England schoolmarm to New York City police constable. Despised by his superiors (one of whom is..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Random Hearts
"...equally distressing 'do in Presumed Innocent) plays Washington, D.C., police sergeant “Dutch” Van Den Broeck, who uncovers his wife's..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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