This is mediocre, mostly forgettable drama, but it leaves a nasty taste.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 13, 2020

A tense and gritty crime drama which pulls no punches.

| Sep 3, 2020

If the Oscar-caliber Training Day is like filet mignon, then Crown Vic is like a McDonald's hamburger.

| Jul 11, 2020

My problem with this movie... is that it wants us to empathize with Thomas Jane's character. But the thing is, his character's just a crooked cop.

| Nov 19, 2019

Writer-director Joel Souza's "Crown Vic" doesn't always balance those elements ideally, but it's still a respectable if non-revelatory cruise through a familiar terrain of mean streets and men in blue.

| Nov 16, 2019

Souza and his cast explore a familiar milieu, and though they fall short of saying anything startlingly insightful about it, they do a fine job of making it feel real, and even vital.

| Nov 15, 2019

A police thriller with few police and fewer thrills, Crown Vic nevertheless offers a few rewards for the patient viewer, though these come wrapped in a derivative package.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 14, 2019

Written and directed by Joel Souza, this gritty, compressed exercise in nocturnal suspense demonstrates both the power and vulnerability of the men in blue.

| Nov 14, 2019

An old-fashioned cop drama with echoes of David Ayer's End of Watch, Crown Vic doesn't break any molds, but allows Thomas Jane yet another part that reminds one how grounded and resonant he can be in the right material.

| Nov 14, 2019

Crown Vic has strong performances and some topical observations of modern day police work, but it never goes anywhere interesting enough with them.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 14, 2019

A good film that unfortunately doesn't stand out from the crop. The performances by Thomas Jane and Luke Kleintank are solid and there are a few moments of real inspiration.

| Original Score: 2.5 | Nov 12, 2019

The rest of Crown Vic, written and directed by Joel Souza, will keep you glued to your watch more than the screen while you remember how much better Training Day was.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 11, 2019

The four-wheeled title character is more intriguing than its human counterparts in this gimmicky thriller.

| Nov 9, 2019

Has very little to offer the discriminating moviegoer.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 8, 2019

Crown Vic offers no ... sweeping sentiments, because it's too busy picking apart the mucky, gray morality of two men...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 8, 2019

A verbose, hackneyed thriller about a night in the lives of a veteran patrol officer and his trainee.

| Nov 7, 2019

"Crown Vic" doesn't sustain a level of suspense and grim analysis throughout the entire endeavor, keeping the picture uneven, but still connecting with undeniable moments of clarity.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 6, 2019

Overall, it's a very nicely made film, but its familiarity is likely to limit its audience potential and mean that [Joel] Souza's talent won't get the recognition it deserves.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 4, 2019

The result isn't perfect, but there's enough to peek inside this complex argument surrounding the police with nuanced emotion.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 11, 2019

Crown Vic proves to be a limited yet effective study of urban police work initiated by veterans who have gotten this far on street smarts and broken windows policing, rather than the new school of a community policing approach.

| Original Score: B | Oct 3, 2019