It’s the sort of movie that slaps you awake, that grabs you by the shoulders and shakes you -- hard. “Narc’s” opening scene is a barrage of kinetic brutality that disturbs not so much with its ...

Just when it seemed cop movies had run out of bullets, along come two crime thrillers that hit the bull’s-eye. “Narc” (2002, Paramount, R, $30) and “Dark Blue” (2003, MGM, R, $27) are both hard-edged ...

Paramount Pictures and Lions Gate Films have jointly acquired domestic distribution rights to the Sundance Film Festival hit “Narc,” starring Jason Patric and Ray Liotta. The unusual pickup marks the ...

It’s only fitting that the awards-season hopes for “Narc” rest squarely with actors. The gritty drama, starring Jason Patric and Ray Liotta as narcotics detectives, has managed to survive over the ...

Running time: 105 minutes. Rated R (extreme violence, gore, profanity, drugs). At the Empire, the Lincoln Square, the Loews Village. A lurid police thriller, “Narc” is directed with enormous elan by ...

Thanks to the fine folks at Paramount for the hook-up on this exclusive clip of Narc, their new crime thriller starring Jason Patric and Ray Liotta (check out our interview with Liotta). Described as ...

Thanks to the work of some powerful folks, a worthy film no one seemed interested in distributing will see the light of day. “Narc” (opening Dec. 20 in limited release) is a dark and powerful drama ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Filmmaker Joe Carnahan’s TV adaptation of his ...

In the rush of must-see holiday films, and on top of those the must-see-artsy-academy-vying films, there is a small movie called Narc slated to be released in a few theaters on Dec. 20. In the face of ...