What it lacks in subtlety and intelligence it makes up in violence, brutishness, and hackneyed story lines. These are qualities best enjoyed at home.
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11/10/08
Pride and Glory (2008)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:9
Rotten:20
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: Formulaic in its plotting and cliched in its dialogue, Pride and Glory does little to distinguish itself from other police procedurals.
Theatrical Release:Oct 24, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $15,709,385
Synopsis: The son of a New York City police officer, Gavin O'Connor serves as director and co-screenwriter of this tale of family, loyalty, and corruption. The NYPD runs in the Tierney family's blood.... [More]
Starring: Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight, Noah Emmerich
Director: Gavin O'Connor
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Reviews for Pride and Glory
Top CriticPride 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.
10/24/08
Top CriticPride'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.
10/24/08
Top CriticThere's nothing really wrong with Pride and Glory, apart from an excessive degree of brutality, but there's nothing terribly revelatory about it either.
10/24/08
Top CriticPride 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.
10/24/08
Top CriticWhat 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.
10/24/08
Top CriticIt's bearable for two acts, but eventually sensation overtakes sense.
10/24/08
Top CriticPride and Glory, directed by Gavin O’Connor, plods across familiar ground. It’s yet another movie about the fraternal disorder of the police.
10/24/08
Top CriticWhen the writers went to the Dialogue Store, it must have been closed because they loaded their cart from whatever they found in the Dumpster out back.
10/24/08
Top CriticThe dirty-cop drama Pride and Glory overshoots the mark by spinning its implausible, hyperviolent tale around too tight a family circle.
10/24/08
Top CriticA gritty thriller in the bloodline of Sidney Lumet's compelling New York City cop stories Serpico, Prince of the City and Dog Day Afternoon, it also offers deeper meaning for anyone willing to look for it.
10/24/08
Top CriticA plodding, formulaic police drama bathed in bluish light, Pride and Glory displays very little of either.
10/24/08
Top CriticGranted, the opening scenes are a shaky-cam chaos. Mawkishness and bleating illogic plague the endgame. But I might have forgiven even that had the remainder of the movie not been ruined in the trailer.
10/24/08
Top CriticA top-notch cast including Edward Norton, Colin Farrell and Jon Voight really get the job done, with spare, tough/tender performances that rank among their best work.
10/24/08
Top CriticA talented cast and moments of brutal violence can't dislodge a sense of ho-hum predictability in Pride and Glory.
10/24/08
Top CriticNot that the movie's a knockout by any means. But it does bring enough integrity, good acting and old-fashioned mean street snarl to the formula to show it can still work.
10/24/08
Top CriticWell-paced, well-acted, Pride and Glory is much richer than routine.
10/24/08
Top CriticDirector Gavin O'Connor and co-screenwriter Joe Carnahan take a perfectly fine B-movie premise and slow it down to an A-movie pace; in the process, they remove the juice that keeps a story like this honest.
10/24/08
Top CriticPride and Glory definitely stirs up some drama. But the script doesn't serve the drama well.
10/23/08
Top CriticPride and Glory would be risible if it weren't so reprehensible.
10/23/08
Top CriticLatest News for Pride and Glory
January 17, 2009:
Pride And Glory is anything but. And though rife with brutality and cynicism way too over the top to make sense of it all, the journey there stings with a raw and devastating emotional power. Abu Graib in Washington Heights meets Godfather in blue. 
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January 17, 2009:
Pride And Glory is anything but. And though rife with brutality and cynicism way too over the top to make sense of it all, the journey there stings with a raw and devastating emotional power. Abu Graib in Washington Heights meets Godfather in blue.
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November 07, 2008:
UK Critics Consensus: Was W. Wicked? Is Pride & Glory Proud and Glorious?
This week in the UK cinemas we have Oliver Stones latest presidential dissection, the George W. Bush biopic W. with Josh Brolin in the title role. Also out is Pride & Glory, a... More...
October 27, 2008:
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