Video Review

Dirty Work

Reviewed by Lawrence O'Toole | May 21, 1993
EW's GRADE
B+

Details Genres: Crime, Drama; With: John Ashton and Kevin Dobson

A modern-day film noir, this taut, emotionally rough, and fiercely intelligent gem proves that the most interesting films being made nowadays find their real homes on video. Dobson plays the lonely, divorced ex-cop-turned-bailbondsman, and Ashton (in a splendid, scarifying performance as a man who has lost his soul) is his wayward partner. Dirty Work, directed by John McPherson, is a dark, uncompromising, and finally shocking meditation on trust and betrayal between friends. Grab it. B+

Originally posted May 21, 1993 Published in issue #171 May 21, 1993 Order article reprints

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