No one wears glassy-eyed anxiety better than Joaquin Phoenix, but his sharp performance as a ne'er-do-well straddling both sides of the law can't salvage We Own the Night, a slowly deflating, Russian-accented Departed. Mark Wahlberg treads familiar, if lower-key, terrain, and police patriarch Robert Duvall seems content just playing Robert Duvall. EXTRAS Soft-spoken writer-director James Gray slips in spot-on imitations of his three male stars in his otherwise scholarly commentary, and in a featurette shares how Phoenix provoked Duvall on the set to stoke his character's paternal disdain. B-
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STARE MASTERS A cop (Mark Wahlberg) and his shady brother (Joaquin Phoenix) face off in We Own the Night, a crime story that feels a bit forced
EW's GRADE
B-Details Release Date: Feb 12, 2008; DVD Release Date: Feb 12, 2008; Movie Rated: R; Genres: Drama, Mystery and Thriller; With: Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg; Distributor: Columbia Pictures
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