It's gritty thriller that's as tough as its title.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5 stars | Apr 4, 2023

While it's certainly not a pleasant watch thanks to its brutal violence and bloated runtime, the murkiness merits discussion and deliberation.

Full Review | Mar 20, 2023

You simply can never know what is going to happen next in Zahler’s pulp-fiction exploitation tale that is a brutal, uncompromising, unapologetic, and often repugnant journey that is compulsively watchable.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 18, 2022

Throughout its two-hour-and-forty-minute runtime, I found myself alternating between feelings of disgust over how one might perceive these situations and feeling enrapt by the forceful way Zahler tells his story.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 3, 2022

Episode 33: Triple Threat / The Raid / Dragged Across Concrete

Full Review | Original Score: 90/100 | Sep 14, 2021

The second half of the film's epic running time is a remarkable achievement in sustained suspense without resorting to cheap shortcuts

Full Review | Original Score: B | Feb 5, 2021

Dragged Across Concrete is an unapologetic noir that's at times hard to swallow, a construct of the times that seems lab-grown to provoke and outrage.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jan 29, 2021

Stuffed with wooden dialogue and dubious politics, there's still a grim fascination to this pulpy story shot in a fizzing streetlamp glow.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2020

The dialogue has a nicely off-kilter feel.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 4, 2020

The commentary on honesty, police brutality and the evils of capitalism is very accurate. It's a good cop film, a very unpredictable one. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 29, 2020

It would be easy to dismiss Zahler as a grindhouse hack, [but] few action film directors put such care into every shot. And few screenwriters of any genre lavish such attention to the words put into the mouths of their characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 27, 2020

A smouldering slow burn which drags and fizzles out without an explosive ending.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 13, 2020

As the film comes to a bloody climax, the horrid pathos of men abandoned and tossed asunder resonates tragically. Regret, despair, stoicism and injustice all chime as the bell tolls and the bullets ricochet. It's operatic.

Full Review | Jun 20, 2020

Zahler has an enormous capability to tell small, great personal stories without seemingly much effort. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Jun 11, 2020

You feel as if you are being dragged across a concrete surface. For better and for worse. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 13, 2020

...a film that is engaging and methodical even as the chaos and violence pile up.

Full Review | Feb 13, 2020

Dragged Across Concrete is Zahler flexing his script-writing muscles, and it should come as no surprise he has also churned out five novels since 2010, with his latest feeling like an adaptation of one of his own books.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 6, 2020

Dirty, angry, and it feels like it wants to pick a fight with you.

Full Review | Sep 24, 2019

Lean, exceptionally mean, and oddly compelling.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2019

Everything goes on way, way too long and so many of the characters are horrible.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2019