After a promising start, with a strong Harris in the lead, Black and Blue gives way to a generic against time thriller.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 20, 2022

There’s an effective, nuanced way to tell a story tackling this issue. Black and Blue does the exact opposite of that, eschewing all nuance and subtlety to make the most generic version of this story as possible.

| Original Score: 3/10 | May 19, 2022

I think that people right now feel that there needs to be some serious conversation about what we can do for reconciliation between the police and the community... This movie just doesn't contribute to that.

| Jun 16, 2021

Poised to be something different, Black and Blue is sadly a misfire...

| Nov 6, 2020

For a film with a bit of righteous anger, Black and Blue is a little too conventionally dramatised. So, it neither stimulates nor provokes as an editorial on the impact of racism and police violence in the US. Frankly, it feels like a cop-out.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 24, 2020

The movie falters when pushed beyond its intriguing premise to a meaningful message.

| Feb 15, 2020

It was impressive to see what director Deon Taylor could conjure up when he isn't playing the upstanding Luke Cage on Netflix. Films that take place over a day or two always seem more exciting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 2, 2020

Black And Blue infuses this classic story with considerable life and energy, making it one of the more memorable pleasant surprises of the year thus far.

| Dec 27, 2019

'Black and Blue' is timely law-enforcement actioner.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 23, 2019

... generates some moderate suspense as a cat-and-mouse thriller, although any deeper exploration of socioeconomic inequality and racial profiling feels exaggerated and heavy-handed.

| Nov 22, 2019

Harris earns our empathy while playing both action hero and emotional centre, her performance deepening the context of the film, turning it into something more vibrant than you would expect.

| Nov 16, 2019

However, it is too bad that such hostile societal observations in Black and Blue are contained in a generic, clunky action-pack spectacle that undermines its profound presentation about police corruption and minority alienation.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 15, 2019

A powerful addition to the gritty, high-tension, dimly lit, dirty-cop thriller genre, which includes Kurt Russell in "Dark Blue," Denzel Washington in "Training Day," and Richard Gere in "Internal Affairs."

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 11, 2019

In what has become trademark storytelling for director Deon Taylor, Black and Blue rises to the top of the cinematic ladder with a socially conscious commentary told within the parameters of an action thriller.

| Nov 10, 2019

Just a fine thriller that gets by thanks to its strong performances, slick action and timely undertones.

| Nov 8, 2019

Enough of the flick works -- thanks a great deal to Harris' performance. (Full Content Review for Parents - Violence, Profanity, etc. - also Available)

| Nov 8, 2019

I was intrigued by the whole movie.

| Nov 4, 2019

It pulls off its conventional material in interesting ways.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 2, 2019

What we're left with is passable urban action jaunt which, despite being bolstered by some fitting realism thanks to its grim, inner city locations and acting, resounds as nothing more than sub-par corrupt US cop fodder which passes time but rarely rivets

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 1, 2019

Black and Blue is a confused and unsettling film for confused, unsettling times.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 30, 2019