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Movie Review Brooklyn's Finest (2008)

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Richard Gere and Ethan Hawke in “Brooklyn’s Finest,” directed by Antoine Fuqua.

Brooklyn’s Finest” burrows deep into a rough corner of the Borough of Kings, and also into the collective memory of generations of meaty, emotional movies about New York City cops in trouble. The picture is set in the present, though you might not guess as much from the bad-old-days-level body count and the Sidney Lumet (“Prince of the City,” say, or “Q and A”) aura hanging around the three suffering, ethically compromised policemen at its center.

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  • By A. O. SCOTT

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