This abrasive and brilliant Los Angeles cop drama contains two exceptional male-lead performances.

Full Review | Feb 27, 2023

Though Ayer’s screenplay resorts to some of the clichés we associate with the genre, the performances are so strong that we hardly care.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 25, 2022

There are countless buddy-cop action movies, but this one really is a bit different.

Full Review | Apr 8, 2021

With throat-grabbing immediacy, giddily frenetic cop thriller End of Watch thrusts you into the front seat of an LA patrol car.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 17, 2020

It holds up, it's just a good movie...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 11, 2020

Really solid performances, and really solid cinematography with a heavy punch...there are very few movies we see lately that have actual stakes...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 11, 2020

Fast-paced, entertaining with great performances from Gyllenhaal and Peña, End of Watch is more than your usual cop-partner/buddy flick.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 9, 2019

A superior police drama rains down a hail of blows upon the viewer.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2019

Gyllenhaal and Pena have an easy, appealing chemistry with each other and convince us that Brian and Mike are both well-suited to their calling.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jan 31, 2019

End of Watch is viscerally exciting, innovative, hugely violent but also hugely sentimental.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2018

Focal ethos, mixed with gripping action sequences, make for a strong, if imperfect buddy cop drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2018

While Ayer and his cast demonstrate a thorough understanding of their subject, and their movie features realistic violence and casual callousness, End Of Watch doesn't really go anywhere.

Full Review | Aug 21, 2018

Capturing the stress and tension of the job detail, as well as the emotional toll on the officers, the line between audience and actor is blurred as the camera alternates between their perspective and that of the audience.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Aug 21, 2017

This is the thinking man's action movie, a cop flick that takes us off the beaten track. Above all, though, it is a bromance.

Full Review | Aug 11, 2017

This well-rendered if brutal portrait is a welcome counterweight to the seemingly endless stream of Hollywood paeans to corrupt cop-life in the USA.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 21, 2016

Maddeningly episodic.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 10, 2016

I'm still wondering who we're supposed to assume was holding the camera during Gyllenhaal and Anna Kendrick's sex scene.

Full Review | May 3, 2015

End of Watch plays a lot like Colors for the YouTube generation.

Full Review | Sep 8, 2013

A visceral and strangely gripping story of police brotherhood.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 28, 2013

This Jake Gyllenhaal buddy/cop drama features some of the best on-screen banter in years.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2013