Dragged Across Concrete's reviews
Media reviews
Indiewire
'Dragged Across Concrete' may be a hard movie to love, but it?s a much harder one not to respect and even admire.
Variety
At a whopping 158 minutes, ?Concrete?s? sleek, languorous anatomy of a heist represents the filmmaker?s most extreme exercise yet in painstaking genre deceleration, sparked as ever by the tangy movie-movie vernacular of his writing, the crunchy metal-on-asphalt dynamism of his craftsmanship, and the back-from-the-brink reanimation of his stars
The Guardian
Zahler has a way with action, and the set pieces are inventive and nasty, with an unflinching eye for violence. Such style and confidence is impressive. But after three movies, his increasingly morose characters? world-weariness is becoming wearying in itself; a little more light and shade here and there would easily take this cult director to the next level. That is, if he wants to go.
The Telegraph
Even when the heist gets underway, the film takes its time about everything: what Zahler has essentially done is put a 15-minute mid-blockbuster set-piece on the rack and stretched it out until its cartilage pops.
The Hollywood Reporter
The insanely self-indulgent running time of two hours and 40 minutes and the tendency to undercut tension with fussy dialogue that continually draws attention to its cleverness make Zahler?s third feature a lot less fun than it seems to think it is.