Where's it all go? Nowhere, really, just down a dirty, disappointing hole. Harrelson deserved better.

| Original Score: C | Mar 9, 2012

It's a remarkably compelling film.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 1, 2012

Brown is a sick man, but Harrelson makes him so interesting, so charismatic, so ... watchable, that you can't look away, even if his actions make you want to (and they will).

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2012

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 25, 2012

Harrelson is riveting, and Moverman's gaze is unflinching.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 24, 2012

No Ellroy fan should miss this movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 24, 2012

"Rampart" doesn't tell a coherent story as much as swirl the drain with Dave, as his increasingly desperate efforts to save himself simply result in a cascade of self-inflicted wounds.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 23, 2012

This isn't your average out-of-control character, and Harrelson has to work against a narrowly defined screenplay that is short on specifics.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 23, 2012

Rampart might be a worthy attempt to probe the banality of evil, but after an hour and a half of its near-unvarying gruesomeness, it's the film that starts to feel decidedly banal.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 23, 2012

At its centre is a character portrait almost as memorably excruciating - in its tormented, self-tormenting psyche - as Büchner's Woyzeck.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 23, 2012

Rampart is a gripping movie, and a great addition to the Ellroy canon.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 23, 2012

Sure to provoke furious reactions in those unwilling to succumb to its mood of reckless abandon. But for those who can, this feverish slice of LA noir is set to be one of the purest cinematic pleasures of 2012.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 21, 2012

A familiar story oddly presented, but with a powerful central performance from Woody Harrelson.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 20, 2012

Director Oren Moverman understands that Woody Harrelson is a real actor and makes movies to prove it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 16, 2012

Something to see and little to remember, an acrid character study undone by narrative implausibilities and its own lack of purpose.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 16, 2012

"Rampart" patrols some familiar streets, but this jarringly intimate study of a dirty Los Angeles cop sliding, crazily, down the drain has a distinctive new-cliche smell, pungent and alive.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 16, 2012

Harrelson is an ideal actor for the role. Especially in tensely wound-up movies like this, he implies that he's looking at everything and then watching himself looking.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 16, 2012

He insists on "keeping the family together" with the same irrational devotion he applies to his job.

| Feb 16, 2012

This original screenplay is not based on the notorious Rampart Division scandal that rocked the L.A.P.D., but it does take place in 1999 when that investigation was still current.

| Feb 10, 2012

Hallucinatory, elliptical, with dialogue as rich as chocolate cake, this is the self-proclaimed Demon Dog of American crime fiction at his fevered best.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 10, 2012