We Own the Night Reviews


The Mahalo Top 7

  1. Rotten Tomatoes: We Own The Night Reviews
  2. USA Today: "Joaquin Phoenix Owns the Darkly Brooding 'Night'" (October 11, 2007)
  3. Ebert and Roeper: We Own the Night Video Review
  4. CNN.com: We Own the Night Owns the Screen (October 12, 2007)
  5. The Hollywood Reporter: We Own the Night Review (June 1, 2007)  WARNING: Pop-ups
  6. The New York Times: 2 Brothers, and the Mob in the Middle (October 12, 2007)
  7. YouTube Video: We Own the Night Trailer (Time: 2:47)


We Own the Night Reviews (Good)

  • RogerEbert.com: We Own the Night Review (3/4)
    • "The film is made with confidence and energy and is well acted by the principals."
  • A.V. Club: We Own The Night Review
    • "Gray deserves some credit, though, for making a movie that seems deeper and more resonant than it turns out to be."
  • Rolling Stone: We Own the Night Review (3/4)
    • "Set in Brooklyn in the late 1980s, the film proudly wears its heart on its sleeve."
  • The Boston Globe: We Own the Night Review
    • "The movie's climactic car chase is as absurdly thrilling as it is innovative."
  • Criticize This!: We Own the Night Review (3/5)
    • "What’s a cop drama without at least one good car chase? "We Own The Night", starring Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg as brothers on opposite sides of the law, doesn’t disappoint in that respect, in fact it provides one of the most original and heart-pounding pursuits in recent cinematic memory."

We Own the Night Reviews (Bad)

  • New York Post: We Own the Night Review (2/4)
    • "Too slow to be a guilty pleasure and too dumb to be an innocent one, "We Own the Night" doesn't say a lot except We Own a Lot of Scorsese DVDs."
  • Charlotte.com: We Own the Night Review (2/4)
    • "The whole thing is so generic, so been-there-before, that I spent most of it asking myself nitpicking questions."
  • Metromix: We Own the Night Review (2/4)
    • "Twice, writer-director James Gray rouses his story, and the audience, out of an atmospheric fog. It happens on the digitally moistened freeway, and in an earlier sequence depicting a drug bust near the Coney Island section of Brooklyn."

We Own the Night Reviews (Neutral)

  • Cinematical: We Own the Night Review
    • ""We Own the Night" may feel curiously at odds with itself, but that doesn't necessarily make it a bad movie."
  • Premiere: We Own the Night Review (2.5/4)
    • "The carefully orchestrated alternations between reflectiveness and rage that made The Yards so compelling here give way to hackneyed and predictable melodrama."
  • E! Online: We Own the Night Review
    • "This moody anti thriller racks up big debts to old-school cop movies such as "Serpico" and "The French Connection" but never quite pays off, despite decent performances from Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg."