[image: pride-and-glory_l] *POINT OF PRIDE* Edward Norton aims for *Glory* in new cop drama — and comes close to the target
B+ By Gregory Kirschling<http://search.ew.com/EWSearch/ew/search/search.html?type=ew:Gregory+Kirschling;> After decades of Bochco dramas, *The Shield*, and other ''gritty'' TV police shows, cop movies today rarely have the understated oomph that guys like Sidney Lumet brought to them in the '70s and '80s. But *Pride and Glory* is an old-style exception, a tightly acted and emotionally bruising corrupt-cop family drama that feels like the kind of serious, slow-burn NYPD movie nobody — not even Lumet — makes anymore. Edward Norton is in top form as Ray, a burned-out detective whose investigation into the deaths of four cops leads him to suspect his brother-in-law, Officer Jimmy Egan (Colin Farrell, also terrific). The climactic bar brawl and street beating unfortunately feel too stock, but otherwise co-writer/ director Gavin O'Connor puts a new shine on familiar material — something he also did in his previous film, the 2004 Kurt Russell feel-good hockey drama *Miracle*. If O'Connor is out to build a career revitalizing old movie genres, he's two-for-two so far. *B+* [image: http://www.filmpeek.net/images/new-pride-and-glory-poster1.jpg] -- spanx' blog: http://spankyenriquez.blogspot.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gimik" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gimik?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
