A more sober exploration of this world would have been more effective in making this case to the skeptics-the very people who need to be convinced if this kind of more holistic thinking is to make inroads into the public at large.

| Mar 24, 2020

The movie's strength is in its conception of Michel and Zampa, who develop a destructive rivalry, rooted in their mutual determination to prove their superiority.

| Aug 4, 2016

A byzantine, if ultimately conventional, heroic tale that feels like a guided tour down a familiar alley.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 3, 2015

There is ample photographic evidence that the '70s were not, in fact, the best-looking, coolest decade ever. But you wouldn't know it from watching The Connection.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 25, 2015

It's a stylish affair, very solidly made if not exactly breaking new ground in our understanding of events or in the way the movies depict them.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 11, 2015

It may prove too slow for some and the meandering can be a little maddening, but overall it's worth the effort.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 5, 2015

It starts with gunshots - a Mercedes and its driver are riddled by motorcycle-riding assassins in broad daylight - and the pace of "The Connection" is bang-bang brisk most of the rest of the way.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 4, 2015

"The Connection" isn't all that different from a lot of police procedurals that have come before, but there's something about this particular gritty true-crime story that still fascinates all these years later.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 4, 2015

It's all a bit joyless and over-decorated, and the terrific Céline Sallette, from 온라인카지노추천's The Returned, has little to do but fret on the sidelines.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 31, 2015

What it lacks in originality and smarts it makes up for in excitement.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 29, 2015

Gangster movies should not be mildly interesting.

| Original Score: C- | May 29, 2015

The Connection is a genre exercise by a director finding his feet - slick, sure, but lacking Heat's taut set pieces and the De Niro-Pacino star wattage.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 28, 2015

It's the level of detail that most impresses, the painstaking attention the filmmakers have paid to recreating 1970s France and to explaining just how far Zampa's criminal network extended.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 28, 2015

A gripping and stylish French thriller set among mafia mobsters in Marseilles.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 28, 2015

If its shape and trajectory are quickly mapped out, Jimenez hauls in punchy story and character beats ...

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 28, 2015

Riveting from its first moments, "The Connection" is fascinating in its presentation of character, as well as for its glimpse into the workings of an international drug empire and into the ways an imaginative cop found to chip at its power.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 28, 2015

There are many pleasures to be found in The Connection, although they are comfortable and well-worn.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 28, 2015

At times it feels like money for old tropes but Dujardin is a likeable lead who shows he can do more than just ooze charm as he starts to crack the case at the expense of even bigger fissures in his family life.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 28, 2015

There are no elaborate car chases or dizzyingly choreographed shootouts. Yet it's nonetheless a compelling portrait of two men in a specific time and place.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 28, 2015

Sports the most schnozz-tacular array of craggy-faced macho men this side of Easter Island.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 26, 2015