We Own the Night
Bobby Green is a manager of a Gotham's hottest clubs, but behind the scene it is a blind eye to monitor criminal activities. Bobby will be a target of the city's dangerous criminals if his sensitive information is revealed
4 March 1947, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
30 June 1936, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
28 August 1980, New York City, New York, USA
29 July 1972, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 May 1981, Bronx, New York, USA
18 August 1951, Israel
July 06, 2010
Director-writer James Gray makes it all seem more urgent than it has any right to feel, because he knows how to make tense, violent dramas that are soaking in mood.
December 20, 2009
If We Own the Night is flawed and somewhat choppy, it served notice that Gray, once he refined his technique, would be a force to be reckoned with in the cinema world.
January 18, 2008
[Gray's] feel for dialogue has rarely failed him, and it doesn't here.
July 22, 2008
Although We Own the Night is never as suspenseful as it wants to be and can be a little formulaic, it never comes close to being boring, and that's something you can't say too often about movies these days.
October 20, 2007
As flat-footed as writer-director James Gray's script often sounds, his cops-vs.-mob tale can be strangely mesmerizing.
October 18, 2008
It's not surprising, but it's engaging enough that most patrons will likely cut the director some slack for the out-of-period details and convoluted plot contrivances that make the film seem at once sloppy and too neat.
October 20, 2007
Time will tell, but from where I'm sitting this deceptively routine cop movie runs deep. In fact, it already looks like a classic. Cagney and Tracy would be proud.
December 13, 2007
A desperate violence and urgency spills out in the film's flash-point set-pieces - not least a sensational car chase, shot through a windscreen, hammering rain and a blur of fear.
July 06, 2010
This is a man's movie: gritty, macho, and lacking in grace.
July 06, 2010
An intriguing blend of mainstream audience-pleaser and a more subtle, even intellectual agenda.
October 18, 2008
A generic thriller that aims for deeper resonance, We Own The Night is an intriguing feature, undermined by a plot that stretches credulity, yet which still manages to conform to predictable gangster flick cliché.
