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Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
- Excerpt: Crime dramas are a dime a dozen, but this one earns its place as one of the best of recent memory.
- Excerpt: Crime 101 has most of the ingredients to be another great entry in the genre, and it succeeds when it actually decides to deliver on its promise. But too much of the film is spent on things that have no real bearing on plot or character development, leaving the movie in the middle of the pack.
- Excerpt: By the time we get to the climax, we are so fully invested in these characters, and so blown off-kilter about what is and isn’t real in their lives, that the tension is barely tolerable, playing hope against logic and transmuting into something that is more than the sum of its parts.
- Excerpt: Crime 101 stands alongside Michael Mann’s Heat and William Friedkin’s To Live and Die in L.A. as one of the great cinematic crime dramas.
- Excerpt: The interweaving of different narrative threads lends a solemn and epic tone to the production. It’s the kind of film we should support and see in cinemas; otherwise, it will once again be relegated to the obscurity of streaming and (UGH) “content.”
Alex Bentley @ CultureMap Dallas
Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
Sebastian Zavala @ MeGustaElCine.com [Spanish]
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