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By Neil Smith (699) for BBC.com (1,500) on 23 Nov 2007

Too often the film crosses the line between recording his subjects' illegal activities and aggrandising them…

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By Dave Calhoun (583) for Time Out (7,510) on 22 Nov 2007

It's the sort of glamour-meets-violence drugs-crime story on which lads' mags thrive: unqualified, over-reverent and hysterical…

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By Matt Bochenski (86) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 21 Nov 2007

Ropey graphics and sub-Scarface synth music simply add to the feeling that you're getting a low budget experience…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 23 Sep 2007

In a sense it's a shame that Cocaine Cowboys is so obsessed by violence, because the film has interesting points to make…

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By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 01 Mar 2007

Rich in detail and fascinating characters…

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By Jason Ferguson (44) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 07 Dec 2006

Cocaine Cowboys is a fascinating look at a time when Miami was so flush with cash from cocaine deals that it was completely buffered from a…

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By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 01 Dec 2006

The Jan Hammer music on the soundtrack works overtime to assure us that Cocaine Cowboys is the real, nastier version of Miami Vice…

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By David Elliott (754) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 10 Nov 2006

It's watchable, but like gorging on every rotten issue of the old Confidential magazine…

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By Bill Stamets (145) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 10 Nov 2006

This documentary on Miami's lethal '80s cocaine scene is cut fast…

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By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 03 Nov 2006

It's a remarkable immersion in a world turned morally inside out…

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By Stax (77) for IGN Movies (1,472) on 02 Nov 2006

Through its use of archival news footage and contemporary interviews, Cocaine Cowboys proves to be an intoxicating exploration of Miami, the…

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By Timothy Knight (332) for Reel.com (1,232) on 26 Oct 2006

While it's a bit haphazardly organized and offers only a cursory analysis of the drug war's impact on the city, Billy Corben's second documentary…

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By Ron Wilkinson (582) for Monsters and Critics (513) on 25 Oct 2006

A slick look at the cocaine trade of the 70s/80s that made Miami the home of more homicides per capita, and more banks per square mile, than…

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By Jules Brenner (885) for Cinema Signals (847) on 05 Oct 2006

Informative documentary filmmaking that belongs as much on library shelves and agency case files as in your local theatre…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 31 Aug 2006

Cocaine Cowboys' pulpy entertainment value merely lures us into a grim, kaleidoscopic look at how one city was both destroyed and, ironically,…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 28 Jul 2006

Cocaine Cowboys, which at times seems like it could have been edited by someone on coke, comes at you as a vast bloody river of underworld…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 05 Jun 2006

An exhaustive, exciting and ultimately exhausting history of how that white powder, and the Colombian crime lords who imported it by the hundreds…

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