A no-nonsense dramatic response to the LAPD Rampart scandals of the '90s.

Full Review | Jul 22, 2008

We get it. All of you guys watched the Tarantino movies and you watched the Peckinpah movies. Enough, give us something original.

Full Review | Feb 27, 2006

The cinematography of Eliot Rockett is also laudable: The city is not only rendered in the usual hot and gritty texture of urban landscapes, but is imbued with sense of oppression that is palpable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 24, 2006

The machinations of the plot are so murky as to be not worth following.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 24, 2006

The only suspense is how long it's going to take for this movie to finally drag to an end.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Feb 24, 2006

As good as the leads and the supporting cast are, and as much action as gets packed into the film's relatively brief running time, none of it draws us in dramatically.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 24, 2006

Capturing LA as a sepia-toned, sunbaked wasteland just isn't fresh. Why must every LA cop drama take place on the hottest day of the year just as the city is about to explode?

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 24, 2006

Cuba Gooding Jr. sheds the halo that has threated to strangle his career by playing a corrupt cop in a nasty little genre film set in Los Angeles.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 23, 2006

It makes Training Day seem like a film about good citizenship, but Dirty is also a luxury vehicle for two actors whose every appearance on screen is a boon.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 23, 2006

At the end of the antiheroes' ropes, at the end of writer-director Chris Fisher's genre exercise, guns have been drawn, blood has been spilled, cops have been thwarted from going straight, and nothing has changed.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 22, 2006

[Director Fisher] appears fixated on Los Angeles as a nihilistic phantasmagoria.

| Feb 21, 2006

Chris Fisher's Dirty is clumsier and less earnest than Crash, but it's every bit as totalitarian.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 17, 2006