Pride and Glory
New Line Cinema | Release Date: October 24, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
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Mixed or average reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
16
Negative:
7
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
It overflows with a combustible blend of street sensitivity and testosterone. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyGregory Kirschling
Edward Norton is in top form as Ray, a burned-out detective whose investigation into the deaths of four cops leads him to suspect his brother-in-law, Officer Jimmy Egan (Colin Farrell, also terrific). Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Its value is unquestionable as drama and moral provocation. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
The stark drama harkens back to Sidney Lumet classics like "Serpico" and "Prince of the City"-filmmaking that went after an unadorned, jagged realism, with acting to match. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
The final 15 minutes are so awful that it's difficult to believe that the bulk of the film is actually decent. Read full review
63
PremiereKarl Rozemeyer
If you enjoy a cop drama, regardless how packed with trite and worn plot points, Pride and Glory should do the trick. Read full review
60
SalonMary Elizabeth Williams
What makes the characters in Pride and Glory real -- and raises the movie above the standard corrupt-cop fare -- is their capacity to live and die in shades of gray. Read full review
58
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
At times, Pride and Glory seems to be about a war between actors, not cops. Nobody comes off well. Read full review
50
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Feels like a film that should have been made at least 25 years ago. Or made as a period piece. Heavy, doom-laden and, unfortunately, entirely predictable. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
It follows the well-worn pathways of countless police dramas before it. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Full of interesting little grace notes, and the cast is excellent, yet it grows more and more frustrating. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Gritty, jumpy and rife with cliches. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
You can feel the debt to Sidney Lumet's '70s studies in police corruption and cop brotherhood, but O'Connor never captures the edge of danger, anger and moral stands being ground up in compromise. Read full review
50
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
Not especially good, but there is enough rough artistry in Mr. O’Connor’s direction to make you wish the film were better. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
A talented cast and moments of brutal violence can't dislodge a sense of ho-hum predictability in Pride and Glory. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
It's lifted from pretty much every movie or TV show you've ever seen about police corruption, only not done as well. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Everything in this good-cop/bad-cop action drama is shrouded in gray and attended by wailing. This isn't a feel-good genre, granted, but does it have to feel this bad? Read full review
42
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
A movie full of actors improvising their idea of how cops in a Scorsese flick would talk. It's a special sort of cartoonishness, a hard-to-pin-down brand of emotionally grandstanding fakeness you sometimes see in movies trying way too hard to be "gritty." Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
It's a good thing this movie has been sitting on the shelf for a year or more, because, apart from the difference in release dates, there's little to distinguish this new cop drama from last year's cop drama "We Own the Night." Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
The movie is as histrionic as it is ham-fisted, a bad combination that leads to scenes such as the one in which officers threaten to torture a baby to get their point across. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
Overshoots the mark by spinning its implausible, hyperviolent tale around too tight a family circle. Read full review
40
Film ThreatRick Kisonak
There’s something fundamentally unconvincing and contrived about the story. Forget the fact that O’Connor hauls out every cliché in the bad cop handbook and the dialogue is more boilerplate than hard-boiled. The premise itself is just plain preposterous. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
It's déjà vu all over again. There isn't much more to say about "We Own the Night 2." Oops, make that Pride and Glory. Read full review
38
New York PostKyle Smith
Edward Norton plays Ray, a (possibly) honest cop wearing an unexplained scar positioned just so on his cheek. It looks like it was bought in the markdown aisle of Halloween Mart on Nov. 1. Read full review
38
TV Guide MagazineCammila Albertson
Pride and Glory would be a pretty cool movie if it were made in 1982. Read full review
30
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
Pride and Glory would be risible if it weren't so reprehensible. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Norton is infamous for rewriting scripts and acting as a de facto director on his movies yet he seems lost and defeated here. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
A single 125-minute monstrosity of a cop movie. Read full review
20
Village VoiceRobert Wilonsky
How ironic that a movie filled with police officers should end up feeling like a hostage situation. Read full review
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