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Information
- Year
- 2013
- Runtime
- 127 min.
- Director
- Guillaume Canet
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Rating *
- 6.5
- Votes *
- 13,478
- Checks
- 496
- Favs
- 10
- Dislikes
- 8
- Favs/checks
- 2.0% (1:50)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:1
Top comments
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mpouk
An interesting character driven crime drama. The two leads are superb in their roles, creating fleshed out characters of conflicting societal roles and family bonds. Director Guillaume Canet has an eye for a character detail and a good sense of location (70's Brooklyn is very convincing). Less successful are some perfunctory secondary characters (the character of Marion Cottillard hardly makes much sense apart from causing the final confrontation), while by halfway the film falls prey to the plot contrivances which pile up heavily during the end.
Overall although the film fails to mix social realism with family melodrama in the way Sidney Lumet's fillms did in the 70s, it remains a solid, excellently acted and intelligent crime drama that should not be ignored. 10 years 5 months ago -
Earring72
Well acted crime drama is a bit overlong and has too many underdeveloped side characters. But stilll interesting 8 years 10 months ago