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By Witney Seibold (272) for Nerdist (550) on 22 Mar 2014

Blood Ties, a long-reaching crime epic, possesses all the earmarks of a mellowed-out Scorsese, complete with its bracing, grimy aesthetic,…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 21 Mar 2014

Some excellent performances - by Clive Owen and Billy Crudup - can't disguise the fact that there's absolutely nothing here we haven't seen…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 21 Mar 2014

The performers carry on - Owen is particularly good - but this bird doesn't fly…

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By Tirdad Derakhshani (358) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 21 Mar 2014

An ambitious, if disappointing, period crime drama featuring Clive Owen and Billy Crudup as warring brothers on opposite sides of the law…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 21 Mar 2014

While Canet's direction can't be said to be all over the place, the movie never settles into the groove it so dearly aspires to…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for Newsday (2,345) on 20 Mar 2014

Intriguing performances, and a sense of '70s American cinema that seems to have been preserved in a lava lamp…

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By Tony Medley (1,109) for Tolucan Times (639) on 20 Mar 2014

Canet fills the screen with wonderful performances by a terrific cast and keeps the pace and tension on a high level compensating for the over…

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By Daniel Eagan (552) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 20 Mar 2014

Likeable cast can't salvage this adaptation of a French thriller…

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By Marc Mohan (821) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 20 Mar 2014

Blood Ties not only convincingly recreates its era, it seems like it could have been made then…

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By Gary Goldstein (1,089) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 20 Mar 2014

There's a heft to the proceedings that keeps us invested even when the story's various strands start to unravel…

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By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 20 Mar 2014

This isn’t a movie so much as a fetishist’s fever dream—a fantasia of New York crime movies from the 1970s that places the specificity…

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By Jesse Hassenger (800) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Mar 2014

With his English-language debut, Blood Ties, Canet takes on material of even less interest to today’s big studios, constructing something…

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By Stephen Holden (1,707) for The New York Times (9,847) on 20 Mar 2014

There are some very good performances and parts of performances in Blood Ties, but the movie fails to convey a sense of tribal identity within…

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By Abhimanyu Das (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Mar 2014

What Lumet or Cassavetes often showed with a look, an image, a movement, Canet chooses to tell, and often at length, with the most heavy-handed…

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By Sara Stewart (700) for New York Post (6,650) on 20 Mar 2014

It’s all headed for a showdown, of course, and duly delivers, though Crudup and Taylor are the only ones who really seem to have a handle…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 20 Mar 2014

Fine actors are let down by a comatose script and wayward direction in this retro crime drama…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 20 Mar 2014

Instead of building to a climax, it simply rolls to a stop…

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By Drew Hunt (128) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 19 Mar 2014

The film exhibits strong character interplay and resides in an unconventional milieu, in effect turning rote material into something that feels…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for McClatchy-Tribune News Service (291) on 18 Mar 2014

Among the cast, the Oscar winner Cotillard acquits herself the best, bleary-eyed and bitter…

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By Chris Bumbray (988) for JoBlo's Movie Emporium (1,959) on 05 Sep 2013

A great, exceedingly well-cast, throwback to seventies cinema. Clive Owen's best part since CHILDREN OF MEN…

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