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Pride and Glory

Dir Gavin O’Connor w/ Edward Norton, Colin Farrell. 125 min. Gala.

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BY Jason Anderson   September 01, 2008 14:09

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Potentially TIFF’s worst Gala selection since 2005’s unholy triumvirate of Elizabethtown, Revolver and Edison Force, this self-important but painfully lugubrious cop drama is the worst movie Sidney Lumet never made. The Noo Yawk accents are nevertheless out in full force as Norton, Farrell and Jon Voigt play members of a NYPD family forced to confront corruption within its own circle after four cops die in what appears to be a failed drug bust. The grim feel and grainy look is fashionably retro-’70s but director Gavin O’Connor fails to put a remotely fresh spin on material that’s already used for countless police stories, most of ’em — like Narc, by O’Connor’s co-writer Joe Carnahan — more compelling than this. 

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