Brooklyn’s Finest drags at a snail's pace toward outcomes that are predictable from the moment we’re introduced to the characters.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 18, 2023

The early morning drinking and pseudo suicide attempts are meant to give us insight into the character but come off as tired images recycled from better movies.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 31, 2021

The film is worth a view as a study of just how compelling an actor can be smack dab in the middle of a hyper-violent crime thriller.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 4, 2020

Trite. Yet Fuqua, through his trademark violence and his ability to ramp up tension in every scene, ensures that there is always something interesting to watch on screen.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2018

What gives this an extra star is Ethan Hawke: there are plenty of guns blazing in this movie but the real fire comes from his powerhouse performance.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2018

All the actors are excellent in their portrayals of their characters.

| Jan 13, 2018

Each actor, including Wesley Snipes as a fresh-out-of-jail ex-con, gives one of their grittiest performances in this gripping cop drama reminiscent of 2006's The Departed and 1991's New Jack City.

| Original Score: A | Sep 11, 2017

Throughout his career, [Hawke's] broody emotionality has never read as phony so much as sincerely self-aggrandizing. Here, it connects with nothing, reminding us in turn that the film does not connect with its audience.

| Jul 19, 2017

A messy derivative downbeat cop movie about the mean streets of Brooklyn.

| Original Score: C+ | May 9, 2017

Fuqua once again proves his mastery of the cop/crime drama genre, making for the best of its kind since 'The Departed.'

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Jan 3, 2014

the film's remarkable cast helps Fuqua bring his sprawling web of nastiness to another level

| Nov 13, 2013

An impressive and gritty cop drama with three strong leading performances.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 30, 2012

Although Fuqua has already done this material, he is at least able to make some of it engaging, just not enough to recommend sitting through a runtime of over two hours to find it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 1, 2012

Paints with grimy authenticity a despairing, warts-and-all portrait of cops and criminals, turning the idea of the title on its head and then some.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 8, 2012

| Original Score: D | Feb 18, 2012

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: C | May 6, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 4, 2011

Director Antoine Fuqua gives the well-trod material more room to roam than necessary but fails to shade it in anything but the drabbest law enforcement blue.

| Original Score: C | Mar 9, 2011

While there is plenty going on here, however, the whole film smacks of déjà vu.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 30, 2010