In grim, dull Vaslui, Cristi is a young police officer, conscientious, laconic, recently married to Anca, a teacher. He's tailing a kid who smokes pot and may be supplying his friends. Cristi dislikes the assignment: the kid's clearly not a dealer, an arrest would ruin his life, and, Cristi assumes that Romania will soon tolerate marijuana. His superior tells him flatly that the law is the law and to finish the case with a quick arrest. Cristi wants to follow the informant, a... (Full plot summary below)
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In grim, dull Vaslui, Cristi is a young police officer, conscientious, laconic, recently married to Anca, a teacher. He's tailing a kid who smokes pot and may be supplying his friends. Cristi dislikes the assignment: the kid's clearly not a dealer, an arrest would ruin his life, and, Cristi assumes that Romania will soon tolerate marijuana. His superior tells him flatly that the law is the law and to finish the case with a quick arrest. Cristi wants to follow the informant, a youth whose father is a builder. Cristi watches, he smokes, he writes reports, he wants to meet with the prosecutor. Can a cop have a conscience? Is the noun being modified "procedural" or "state"?
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| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsA "police procedural" with a difference: the policeman hero refuses to proceed. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanPolice, Adjective is a deadly serious as well as dryly humorous analysis of bureaucratic procedure and, particularly, the tyranny of language. Images may record reality, but words define it. |
| VarietyJay WeissbergPorumboiu is one of the few helmers working today who so completely understands both the power of language and the power of visuals. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsIt's not for all tastes; it requires some patience. The more your own job involves absurd, time-consuming bits of minutiae, the more familiar (and amusing) it'll seem. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumYet another outstanding little movie in the exciting Romanian New Wave. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyA simultaneously realistic and absurdist examination of police work. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisThe usual emphasis in a detective film is upended so that procedure, thrillingly, is more important than action. In its own way, this is one of the most intense cop movies you'll see. |
| Boston PhoenixGerald PearyMuch of Corneliu Porumboiu's follow-up to 12:08 East of Bucharest is taken up with Cristi's nonsense surveillance, which -- in the most deliberately paced, extreme long-shot way -- somehow builds and bubbles with tension. |
| NYC Movie GuruAvi OfferA leisurely paced, gently engrossing crime drama with an exceptionally witty and thought-provoking finale. |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsAlthough it's sly and sardonic, Police, Adjective is as rigorous as a tea ceremony -- or a Stalinist re-education camp. |
