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The Outsider

1983 · 1h 40m · N/A Action, Crime, Thriller
Directed by Jacques Deray

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Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord who is essentially inaccessible -- but not immortal.

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Rotten

Because it falls in with the undulating rhythm of the life of its heroes, for whom a fatal fight and a quiet night have almost equal importance, the picture never manages to reach the peaks of satisfying Hollywood melodrama.

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Rotten

Well acted and crafted but highly conventional.

Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten

The film is unremitting in its morbid sentimentality, running its teenage characters through a masochistic gamut of beatings, killings, burnings, and suicides.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten

A deeply strange film that gives '60s hoodlums the personalities of Care Bears and places them under constant attack from preppies in pastel sweaters.

Kyle Smith, New York Post
Fresh

[Coppola's] revisions to the film, which include a new, improved soundtrack, invest it with grandeur worthy of both its characters and his own ambitions.

Manohla Dargis, New York Times

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