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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 90
    The New York Times | Elvis Mitchell

    Everywhere the camera turns in this tense and volatile drama, it finds enough interest for a truckload of conventional Hollywood fare. Whatever its limitations, Cop Land has talent to burn. Read full review

  • 89
    Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov

    Casting is everything, and the casting of Stallone -- playing way against type -- as the powerless hayseed sheriff in Cop Land is nothing short of inspired. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    Cop Land isn't a perfect piece, but it's sober, wise and adult. Read full review

  • 75
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Branching out in a bold new direction, Stallone is quietly devastating. James Mangold has directed Cop Land from his own ardent, audacious script, and despite some draggy, overdeliberate moments, it's the strongest piece of material to come Stallone's way since he invented himself as Rocky 21 years ago. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    The increasingly broad strokes with which the story is painted serve to simplify rather than deepen it, and to make it seem more artificially constructed than need be. Read full review

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Dense, meandering, ambitious yet jarringly pulpy, this tale of big-city corruption in small-town America has competence without mood or power -- a design but not a vision. Read full review

  • 60
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    Unfortunately, while Stallone can carry the weight, the movie can't. Too much of it is too busy -- too many undeveloped subplots -- and some of the main plotting feels murky. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The characters are all over the map, there are too many unclear story threads, our sympathies are confused, and there's an unconvincing showdown in which the story's lovingly developed ambiguities are lost. Read full review

  • 40
    Washington Post | Rita Kempley

    Although the newly paunchy Stallone is credible as a weak, conflicted small-time sheriff, this suburban "Serpico" is a noble, passionless charade. Read full review

  • 30
    Salon.com | Stephanie Zacharek

    It's a shame when an actor like Sylvester Stallone, who's always at his most appealing when he just hunkers down and lets himself be a big galoot, feels he has to make a bid for respectability. Read full review

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