Le petit lieutenant
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings
- Summary:
- Director: Xavier Beauvois
- Genre(s): Drama, Crime
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Positive: 16 out of 19
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Mixed: 2 out of 19
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Negative: 1 out of 19
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100More than on "Prime Suspect," more than any film in recent memory, Le Petit Lieutenant conveys the relentless toll of big-city police work.
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80A flinty, almost hardhearted work about characters who have lost almost everything in pursuit of some undefinable abstraction, like honor or their country or doing the right thing. It's an impressive film, but don't expect any warm fuzzies.
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40Beauvois, who co-wrote, seems hellbent on making the most realistic cop film of all time, shruggingly consumed with downtime, small talk, minor incident, and dead ends, and he's succeeded--the narrative wouldn't have cut it in a Kojak story meeting.
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Keeps such a lazy pace, with so many scenes that fail to move the story forward, that it should be cited for failing to meet the minimum speed for a crime drama.
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Positive: 6 out of 7
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Mixed: 1 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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GeorgeL.10A spare, beautifuly crafted film that takes the police genre to a deeper level while delivering on the action and suspense.
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MichaelW.10
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ChadS.8
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JayW.7
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