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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 03 Jun 2015

It's an overlong, subdued, and generally bland affair, trading Friedkin's of-the-moment urgency for stale period details and technique that…

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By Stephanie Merry (410) for Washington Post (9,851) on 03 Jun 2015

Director Cédric Jimenez, who wrote the movie with Audrey Diwan, has created a slow burn of a movie…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 03 Jun 2015

Influenced by American cinema, The Connection has the directorial muscle to connect the dots on routine material, finding a steady thriller…

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By Jonathan Romney (434) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 30 May 2015

It's all a bit joyless and over-decorated, and the terrific Céline Sallette, from TV's The Returned, has little to do but fret on the sidelines…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue (704) on 28 May 2015

While the script bogs down in procedural elements and suffers from an abundance of clichés, the two charismatic stars make compelling adversaries…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 28 May 2015

With supercool 70s chic and a smart crime thriller vibe, this is a welcome throwback to action dramas of the past, before they chose spectacle…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 28 May 2015

Gangster movies should not be mildly interesting…

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By Jamie Healy (34) for Radio Times (2,421) on 27 May 2015

Despite sympathetic performances from the two main players, this sprawling crime epic delivers barely enough tension to hold the interest to the end…

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By Patrick Smith (29) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 27 May 2015

The Connection is a genre exercise by a director finding his feet - slick, sure, but lacking Heat's taut set pieces and the De Niro-Pacino…

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By Geoffrey Macnab (1,253) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 27 May 2015

It's the level of detail that most impresses, the painstaking attention the filmmakers have paid to recreating 1970s France and to explaining…

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By Kate Muir (612) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 27 May 2015

A gripping and stylish French thriller set among mafia mobsters in Marseilles…

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By Mike Mccahill (552) for Guardian (4,584) on 27 May 2015

If its shape and trajectory are quickly mapped out, Jimenez hauls in punchy story and character beats…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 27 May 2015

Riveting from its first moments, The Connection is fascinating in its presentation of character, as well as for its glimpse into the workings…

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By Josh Kupecki (255) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 27 May 2015

A two-hour-plus cat-and-mouse game between the two heavyweight actors unfolds, and is enthusiastically filmed against a to-die-for soundtrack,…

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By Raphael Abraham (46) for Financial Times (1,822) on 27 May 2015

At times it feels like money for old tropes but Dujardin is a likeable lead who shows he can do more than just ooze charm as he starts to crack…

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By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 27 May 2015

There are no elaborate car chases or dizzyingly choreographed shootouts…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 25 May 2015

In their couple of scenes together, Dujardin and Lellouche, light and dark but so alike, make the screen crackle with their intensity…

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By Dan Jolin (289) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 24 May 2015

For all the charisma of its hero and villain, it falls down on its failure to resist cliché…

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By Eddie Harrison (272) for The List (2,018) on 24 May 2015

There's a lot for genre fans to like, from Dujardin's winning central performance to an eclectic soundtrack that sets a montage of street crime…

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By Rob Hunter (276) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 24 May 2015

It creates a world and pulls you in only to remind you at the end that this warm, sunny fantasy is actually the cold, dark world called reality…

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