Rampart: Press reviews

'a film to file alongside the great LA noir masterpieces of the 1970s.'

'...a brilliant portrait...'

'Harrelson is riveting, and Moverman's gaze is unflinching.'

'The performers in his new movie are uniformly very good and often better than that.'

'has a shimmying complexity and a savage wit'

'...like a leisurely gondola ride through a moral sewer.'

'A familiar story oddly presented, but with a powerful central performance from Woody Harrelson.'

'even Harrelson can't make you like such an unyielding sociopath, though it is quite something to see him try'

'The film scuttles sideways, and in circles: but it refuses to go forward'

'the direction is rarely engaging and Brown is such an exaggerated example of the movie bad cop that he's hard to believe'

'Moverman's plummeting psychological profile shows great taste but poor judgement'

'a worthy attempt to probe the banality of evil, but after an hour and a half of its near-unvarying gruesomeness, it's the film that starts to feel decidedly banal.'

'The movie is stylistically reminiscent of good film noir, but lacks the narrative to hold the attention'