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Police Beat
Directed by
Robinson Devor
Not Rated
2005
81m
Drama
,
Crime
6.8
73%
57%
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An African-born bicycle cop encounters strange and mysterious situations on his police beat in urban Seattle.
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Cast of Police Beat
Pape Sidy Niang
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Ingrid Sanai Buron
Park Visitor
Jake Hart
Internal Affairs Agent
Dennis Kleinsmith
Bullet Proof Vest Man
Jerry Lloyd
Goose Killer
Andy McCone
Rachel's Neighbor
Brandon O'Neill
Lonely Housebreaker
Anna Oxygen
Hilary Pickles
Park Visitor #3
Joe Shapiro
Lindy Doorman
Michelle Sheiman
Purse Snatcher
Robinson Devor
Director / Writer
Charles Mudede
Writer
Alexis Ferris
Producer
Jeffrey Brown
Producer
Police Beat Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
Screenwriters Charles Mudede and Robinson Devor combed through police reports to create this surreal wide-screen drama.
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Jas Keimig
Niang is a joy to watch, a natural and enigmatic presence on-screen.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
A poetic character study etched in its primrose Portland, Seattle locations, "Police Beat" is a clear-eyed dissection of the immigrant experience in pre-smartphone America.
Film Comment Magazine
Chris Chang
Police Beat is an object so gorgeously odd, and so completely at peace with its own oddness, it's hard to compare it to anything else.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A very strange but affecting movie.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Its dreamlike state makes for mesmerizing viewing.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
There are great flashes of Mudede's potent prose and the main character is fascinating -- a Sengalese Seattle bike cop who is going through a separation from his girlfriend while witnessing crimes and misdemeanors throughout the city.
Oregonian
Mike Russell
As in Mudede's column, the film's pleasures lie in the games it plays with language, in the way Seattle is rendered as a dreamscape both funny and frightening, in the way police work does battle with philosophy.
Film Threat
Peter Hanson
Police Beat can't quite figure out what it wants to be.
Variety
Joe Leydon
Distinctive, physically ravishing indie.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Police Beat looks great, and the performances are solid, but the disparate elements in this oddity -- which created a minor stir at the Sundance Film Festival last year -- never entirely coalesce.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
... a delicately funny tale about everyday surrealism.
Village Voice
Rob Nelson
Dreamlike in style, Police Beat is also a real-world vision of what American indies could be if they dared to recognize the drama in our own neighborhoods.
The Hollywood Reporter
James Greenberg
Experiment in film form is interesting but doesn't quite pay off.
Slant Magazine
Keith Uhlich
All the onscreen transgressions are so tightly packed into the film's 80 minutes that they play as increasingly ludicrous and unbelievable examples of community unrest.
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