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Pride and Glory

Pride and Glory (2008)

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Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 153
Fresh: 53 | Rotten: 100

Formulaic in its plotting and cliched in its dialogue, Pride and Glory does little to distinguish itself from other police procedurals.

29

Average Rating: 5.3/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 22

Formulaic in its plotting and cliched in its dialogue, Pride and Glory does little to distinguish itself from other police procedurals.

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Director Gavin O'Connor collaborates with Narc director/screenwriter Joe Carnahan on this family-focused police drama concerning an honest homicide detective (Edward Norton) assigned to investigate the precinct run by his potentially crooked older brother (Noah Emmerich). As the investigation begins to reveal some troubling facts about the precinct, it gradually becomes apparent that the policeman who is also the older brother's best friend (Colin Farrell) may be the man orchestrating many of

R, 2 hr. 10 min.

Drama, Kids & Family

Gavin O'Connor, Joe Carnahan

Jan 27, 2009

$15.7M

New Line Cinema

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Critic Reviews for Pride and Glory

All Critics (156) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (55) | Rotten (101) | DVD (6)

What it lacks in subtlety and intelligence it makes up in violence, brutishness, and hackneyed story lines. These are qualities best enjoyed at home.

November 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Film.com | Comment
Jonathan F. Richards
Film.com
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It's yet another movie about familial strife in the New York City Police Department. If you think you've seen it all before, you have.

October 28, 2008 Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | Comment
Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor
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Pride and Glory is full of interesting little grace notes, and the cast is excellent, yet it grows more and more frustrating. It has everything going for it except a story that doesn't send the audience out miles ahead of the plot developments.

October 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
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Pride's only saving grace is Edward Norton, whose mere presence raises the level of a film several notches. But it's unclear why he lately has chosen such worn-out material.

October 24, 2008 Full Review Source: USA Today | Comment
Claudia Puig
USA Today
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There's nothing really wrong with Pride and Glory, apart from an excessive degree of brutality, but there's nothing terribly revelatory about it either.

October 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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Pride and Glory is more than just lousy; it's an amalgam of every bad tendency of the current cinema, stitched together into a single 125-minute monstrosity of a cop movie.

October 24, 2008 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment (1)
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but it can make for some awfully dull films. The line between inspiration and imitation is fine crossed repeatedly. Pride and Glory isn't the worst offender, just the latest.

April 25, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | Comment
Joshua Starnes
ComingSoon.net

No button remains unpushed, no shred of scenery remains unshredded and no F-bomb remains unuttered.

December 24, 2009 Full Review Source: Florida Times-Union | Comment
Matt Soergel
Florida Times-Union

Pride and Glory doesn't add anything to the generic crooked-cop procedural that we haven't seen with more verve in better movies.

August 30, 2009 Full Review Source: Washington Times | Comment
Sonny Bunch
Washington Times Source: Washington Times

This predictable police corruption story with an A-list cast explores themes of family and honesty as two cop brothers uncover the dirt on their brother-in-law's violent activity, while senior cop Dad tries to keep things under control.

March 21, 2009 Full Review Source: Screenwize | Comment
Simon Weaving
Screenwize

Uma pena que o filme jamais consiga escapar realmente do lugar comum, implodindo de vez em seu terrível terceiro ato.

February 27, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | Comment
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

Hard to watch, hard to listen to and hard to follow.

February 13, 2009 Full Review Source: The Age (Australia) | Comment
Jim Schembri
The Age (Australia)

The actors in Pride and Glory do their best with this cliched material, but the film is so grim, ugly and miserable that it's difficult to sympathise with even the most positive characters.

February 6, 2009 Full Review Source: The Australian | Comment (1)
David Stratton
The Australian

I thought this film was a mess.

February 6, 2009 Full Review Source: MovieTime, ABC Radio National | Comment
Julie Rigg
MovieTime, ABC Radio National

As a drama, Pride and Glory is too glum, and worse, it doesn't convince.

February 5, 2009 Full Review Source: FILMINK (Australia) | Comment
Jarrod Walker
FILMINK (Australia)

Director and co-writer Gavin O'Connor is the son of a former New York policeman, and displays a strong grasp of the familial and fraternal ties that bind his characters together.

February 5, 2009 Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph (Australia) | Comment
Leigh Paatsch
Daily Telegraph (Australia)

While its kinetic appeal does have a numbing - if temporary effect - on your critical faculties, television has been much more successful in claiming this territory as its own.

February 5, 2009 Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | Comment
Sandra Hall
Sydney Morning Herald

Relentlessly dour, filled with unsympathetic characters, and made out of cardboard melodrama. It's the last of those sins that is unforgivable. [Blu-ray]

January 31, 2009 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | Comment (1)
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews Source: Groucho Reviews

It's predictable, it's also escapist entertainment.

January 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
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Stinks of desperation, and a particular kind: wishing it were one of the many better movies in this genre. This film is effectively a knock-off of everything from In the Heat of the Night to Training Day, or The Departed, or even We Own the Night: good brother/bad brother, good cop/bad cop, whole families on the force.

September 2, 2007
danperry17
Daniel Perry

Super Reviewer

There's good, gritty filmmaking on display here and there are moments reminiscent of some of the genre's greats, but "Pride and Glory" gets completely bogged down by a muddy screenplay that kicks off to a great start, but soon becomes more and more confused, tedious, and in the end... generic. The performances and

July 27, 2008
YLOWBSTARDreturns
Michael S

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