If We Own the Night is flawed and somewhat choppy, it served notice that Gray, once he refined his technique, would be a force to be reckoned with in the cinema world.
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12/20/09
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We Own The Night (2007)
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Reviews Counted:138
Fresh:76
Rotten:62
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: Bland characters, clichéd dialogue and rickety plotting ensure We Own The Night never lives up to its potential.
Theatrical Release:Oct 12, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $28,563,179
Synopsis: Director James Gray (THE YARDS) posits two distinctly different brothers--Joseph (Mark Wahlberg) and Bobby Grusinsky (Joaquin Phoenix)--as the central characters in this crime-infested thriller.... [More]
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Robert Duvall
Director: James Gray
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Reviews for We Own The Night
Gray assumes rather than dramatizes the depths of his characters, scanning for gravitas where there are only rickety clichés
08/27/09
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10/18/08
Although We Own the Night is never as suspenseful as it wants to be and can be a little formulaic, it never comes close to being boring, and that's something you can't say too often about movies these days.
07/22/08
(We Own the Night) was terribly written and just such a waste of great actors.
05/24/08
A heavyweight piece that, like its impressive cast, competently and quietly does the business.
05/14/08
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04/03/08
Top CriticLovers of good straightforward thrillers should find plenty to enjoy here.
03/19/08
It's a roller coaster, mainly because a good scene is typically followed by a bad one. For every thrill, there is a melodramatic moment that just doesn't work.
03/04/08
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02/29/08
Top CriticThese are some of the finest actors in America, so it's no surprise that they deliver the goods and create solid, complex and accessible characters we can understand.
02/21/08
We Own the Night declaws the organized crime genre.
02/15/08
Eva Mendes seems to basically be around just to work hard feeding her man Joaquin's erotic fantasies for some relaxation on his down time, in this grim, meandering excursion through Brooklyn's mean streets.
02/02/08
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01/18/08
Traz vários bons momentos que o transformam em um exemplar de gênero acima da média, a começar por alguns excelentes diálogos.
01/16/08
haraktires poy tha mporoysan aneta na perasoyn arketo hrono akoma se skoteina syrtaria, mpas kai mporesoyn na skoteiniasoyn arketa oi idioi gia na metamorfothoyn se kati esto endiaferon an ohi diaforetiko
01/14/08
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01/14/08
Top CriticYou probably won't hate it, but that's because you probably won't feel much of anything about it
12/20/07
A sombre, intelligent, feeling crime drama set in a working-class New York characterised by striving and shabbiness.
12/14/07
The stand-out set piece is an agonising car chase in the rain, replacing the full-throttle showmanship of the Bourne series with a foot on the brake, a shotgun pointing out of the adjacent car, and a series of tight close-ups on the terrified Phoenix.
12/14/07
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