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Police, Adjective
2009 1h 55m Not Rated
Comedy
,
Drama
,
Crime
6.9
79%
60%
65%
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A police officer refuses to arrest a young man for offering drugs to his friends.
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Directed By
Corneliu Porumboiu
Written By
Corneliu Porumboiu
Studio
42 Km Film
,
Periscop Film
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and more
Cast of Police, Adjective
Dragos Bucur
Cristi
Vlad Ivanov
Anghelache
Ion Stoica
Nelu
Irina Săulescu
Anca
Cerasela Trandafir
Gina
Marian Ghenea
Prosecutor
Cosmin Seleși
Costi
Șerban Georgevici
Sică
George Remes
Vali
Adina Dulcu
Dana
Dan Cogălniceanu
Gică
Constantin Diţă
Officer on Duty
Alexandru Sabadac
Alex
Anca Diaconu
Doina
Radu Costin
Victor
Viorel Nebunu
Alex's Father
Emanoela Țiglă
Alex's Mother
Daniel Bîrsan
Bartender
Bungeanu Mioara
Shopkeeper
Police, Adjective Reviews
Dallas Morning News
Cary Darling
An absorbing and contemplative detective story in which the high point of the action involves reading from a dictionary. Really.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Porumboiu's style is steady, observational, his camera tracking Cristi along the streets in much the way Cristi tracks his subject.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
In its own way, this is one of the most intense cop movies you'll see.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
I suspect that those versed in the arcana of Romanian politics will get the most out of this movie, but its moral issues, revolving as they do around matters of rightness and repression, are certainly universal.
Philadelphia City Paper
Sam Adams
The movie could have easily been called Concept, Belabored.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
It's a surprisingly compelling way to build a sense of encroaching dread, delving into a banal, deceptively featureless world where the slightest bureaucratic blip or slip could change someone's life forever.
Film Comment Magazine
Andrew Sarris
The film proceeds at Detective Cristi's pace, stopping and starting, hiding and emerging, scanning and staring, as the languid camera surveys the dismal neighborhoods with undisguised ennui.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
It's unlike anything Hollywood would dare to make.
New Yorker
David Denby
Simultaneously a police procedural, an analysis of language and imagery, a philosophical debate about law and justice, and a very, very dry Romanian Martini -- so dry that, at first, one doesn't quite taste much of anything.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
[A] low-boiling but addictive story about a young police detective who's begun to question the justice of the drug laws he's enforcing.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
[A] remarkably self-effacing and highly intelligent comedy.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The movie comes on like a put-on -- next to nothing happens for an excruciatingly long time -- and ends as a fascinating dialectic between following one's conscience or following the law.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
Most of the story, about a police investigation of a teenage suspect, unreels at a measured pace that will drive some viewers crazy. But the ending justifies the buildup.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Yet another outstanding little movie in the exciting Romanian New Wave.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
You will never think about the definitions of the words "law" and "conscience" the same way after hearing Ivanov assert his authority by way of a dictionary.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
Much like Eliot Ness, Bucur lives at a time when the law could change tomorrow, but his conscience leads him to embrace loopholes and uncertainties wherever he can find them.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It is ... a low-key, observant record of a universal dilemma among people in authority: How do you do your duty when your inner voice tells you it's wrong?
New York Times
A.O. Scott
This can be called realism, but that sturdy old word is not quite sufficient to describe Police, Adjective, which is at once utterly plain, even affectless, and marvelously rich.
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker
Corneliu Porumboiu's Police, Adjective is really two movies, varying significantly in their degree of success.
Hollywood Reporter
Deborah Young
The promise of the whimsical title "Police, Adjective" is fulfilled at the end of this likable, cinematically sophisticated but slow-moving police procedural.
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