Intense cop movie for adults.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 26, 2010

As a director Carnahan definitely has the goods... Unfortunately the script is your basic renegade-cop narrative, with the usual hoo-ha about justice versus the law.

| Apr 9, 2008

If Carnahan keeps wrenching this material back an inch or two from clich, it's only an inch or two.

| Jan 26, 2006

Joe Carnahan's Narc is familiar stuff, but it is bracingly effective. There hasn't been a cop and robbers film this cold and harsh since the 1970's.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 13, 2005

The director is helped in no small part by his leading men.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2003

A chokehold of a movie, grabbing us but not ultimately engaging us.

Full Review | Jun 11, 2003

Ferociously gritty and unsentimentally tough, Joe Carnahan's movie is drenched with a cynicism that permeates the celluloid itself.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 25, 2003

Opening with a chase scene that's real heart-in- your-mouth stuff, the movie barely ever lets up -- it's exciting almost to the point of being exhausting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 4, 2003

A clever, thought-provoking thriller.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 29, 2003

If it does not transcend its genre, at least is is a solid example of why that genre endures.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jan 16, 2003

Fresh and raw like a blown-out vein, Narc takes a walking-dead, cop-flick subgenre and beats new life into it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 12, 2003

A well-sustained allegory-cum-cop drama.

Full Review | Jan 10, 2003

It's a stunner that sadly grows tiresome at the end.

Full Review | Jan 10, 2003

Jason Patric and Ray Liotta make for one splendidly cast pair.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 10, 2003

A good cop movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 10, 2003

There are things to admire about Narc, but they're individual things, not the movie as a whole.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 10, 2003

Finesse is certainly at a premium in Narc. What we get is brute force and a whopping load of testosterone.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 10, 2003

The movie works dramatically right up until the end.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jan 10, 2003

Narc is fast, brutal and a lot smarter than it at first appears to be.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 10, 2003

Narc is all menace and atmosphere.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 10, 2003