Police, Adjective

The film proceeds at Detective Cristi's pace, stopping and starting, hiding and emerging, scanning and staring, as the languid camera surveys the dismal neighborhoods with undisguised ennui.

It's one of those films which, on its placid but pointed surface, seems to be about nothing very much but manages by its end to tell us a great deal.

This whole film is very "police": that is, not exciting or dramatic, but suspicious, cynical and exhausted.

Police, Adjective, which never feels as eerie as [Michael] Haneke's work, is a procedural without guns and car chases, but rather laws and correct--if outdated--grammar.