The problem with 21 Bridges is that it wants to take a stance, but seems entirely unsure what that stance should be.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2019

Wrap those performances in a few half-decent plot points... and the film offers enough depth to justify the set-pieces and narrative twists and turns.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 27, 2019

A very solid cast, but the characters are drawn with very broad strokes...it's a nuts-and-bolts B-movie thriller set-up that is executed efficiently.

| Nov 26, 2019

There are topical moments here as the film toys with public perceptions of US police brutality. And Boseman proves, yet again, to be an easy leading man whose default setting is somewhere between smouldering interiority and outright charm.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 25, 2019

There's a pulpy, comic-book noir to this highly enjoyable thriller, whose rules and parameters are clear.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 25, 2019

Everything about 21 Bridges...is pure counterfeit.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 22, 2019

It's the kind of role Gary Cooper used to play, albeit in a dusty Western town rather than gritty New York.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 22, 2019

A high-concept thriller with a ticking clock and a killer premise, though it doesn't totally deliver on that promise.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 22, 2019

One of the most entertaining and thoughtful American policiers in recent memory.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 22, 2019

Boseman stands out per usual and also finds a way to elevate the material - in this case, a fairly standard cop movie.

| Nov 22, 2019

Boseman carries off the drama with flair and style.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 22, 2019

There is nothing new about the story, but it is capably told and the cast, especially Boseman and Stephan James make it more than watchable.

| Original Score: B + | Nov 22, 2019

What unfolds is a by-the-numbers cop thriller that, like last month's "Black and Blue," too easily falls into corrupt cop clichés.

| Original Score: C | Nov 21, 2019

It's difficult to imagine a worse time to release 21 Bridges than the present.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 21, 2019

Watchable though the One Good Cop formula has oft proven, it's shot through here with unearned self-regard - and turns acrid fast.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 21, 2019

There's strangely little urgency to the internal rhythms and pacing of "21 Bridges." It's not so much a ticking-clock thriller. It's more like: "Is this clock still working? Why didn't I get a digital clock?"

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 21, 2019

"21 Bridges" is well crafted enough to pass the time, but anything more than that is a bridge too far.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 21, 2019

Kirk, an Irish director whose credits include HBO's "Game of Thrones," keeps the action moving at a decent clip. Overall, though, the movie is as generic as its ersatz New York backdrop.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 21, 2019

It's a big, blunt, battering ram of a movie, but it's not dumb: The stunts are sharply executed, the actors unimpeachable and Paul Cameron's lively camera turns the streets of Philadelphia into a credible-enough Manhattan.

| Nov 21, 2019

There are worse things you can do with your time than watch Boseman, Miller and Simmons for an hour and a half. Just know that "21 Bridges" is the kind of movie you'll forget five minutes after seeing it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 21, 2019