59
Metascore
33 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerChristian Science MonitorPeter RainerIt's awfully difficult at this point in film history to come up with a car chase that's startlingly new, but Gray pulls it off. It's the best of its kind since "The French Connection."
- 80Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe closest thing Gray's done to a commercial actioner, the film also applies his genius for tone (aided by superlative sound work) to set pieces that throb with trauma: a tinnitus-soundtracked shoot-out and a rain-slick car chase set to the tempo of windshield wipers.
- 75Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversWe Own the Night is defiantly, refreshingly unhip.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliWith a cast like this, one has a right to expect something amazing, so the fact that We Own the Night is merely "entertaining" might cause disappointment in some quarters.
- 70New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinGray knows how to sell the idea of unalterable destiny with a car chase: That’s the mark of a real action director.
- 70VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyAdequately acted and flecked with the required quota of action to satisfy genre fans, pic recalls numerous good police dramas of the 1970s, but mostly in superficial ways that bring nothing new to the table.
- 70SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirAn intriguing blend of mainstream audience-pleaser and a more subtle, even intellectual agenda.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe story is too patterned and too contrived.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsGray’s writing lacks the punch and zing that might take your mind off such rickety plotting.
- 40Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenGray's signature long takes and overhead shots are in evidence and add to the film's fatalistic tone, and one rainy car-chase sequence is a real keeper. But, overall, it's impossible to shake the film's gloomy sense of eternal repetition.