Dark Blue
Metascore
57 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 37 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 37
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 37
  3. Negative: 4 out of 37
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  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    38
    Creates a hellishly evil portrait of a police department in which every white cop is either a racist thug or an enabler, and every black cop a disgusted observer or crusading hero.
  2. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    38
    Dark Blue proves again what a remarkable actor Denzel Washington is. Too bad he's not in it.
  3. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    12
    The movie heads in a disastrous direction: namely, a police academy ceremony... This lets-wrap-this-thing-up moment sucks the life and the honesty out of an otherwise compelling portrait of tainted lawmen, tainted law.
  4. The New Republic
    Reviewed by: Stanley Kauffmann
    10
    Imagine finding the will to get up every morning to do another day's work on this stale story tarted up with relevance.

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