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Dark Blue (2003) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Dark Blue (2003) a score of 2.4726 out of 4
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Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
Dark Blue is one of those totally happy surprises that moves so quickly and curves so sharply that it leaves this era's hyped critical hits looking like beached whales....read the complete Dark Blue (2003) review at Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
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The Onion (A.V. Club) (Scott Tobias)
Flaws and all, Dark Blue has a combustible energy that's usually anathema to Hollywood, reopening an old wound that has festered too quietly for more than a decade....read the complete Dark Blue (2003) review at The Onion (A.V. Club) (Scott Tobias)
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TV Guide (Ken Fox)
If this brutal tale of crime and corruption within the upper ranks of the Los Angeles Police Department feels like an updated retelling of "L.A. Confidential," there's good reason. Both stories spring from the dark mind of American crime writer James...read the complete Dark Blue (2003) review at TV Guide (Ken Fox)
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The New Republic (Stanley Kauffmann)
Imagine finding the will to get up every morning to do another day's work on this stale story tarted up with relevance....read the complete Dark Blue (2003) review at The New Republic (Stanley Kauffmann)
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
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....read the complete Dark Blue (2003) review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)

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Dark Blue (2003) is ranked overall as  out of 4 stars
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Dark Blue (2003) is ranked overall as  out of 4 stars
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