policier
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Donnie Wahlberg stars in a spinoff of the perennial policier “Blue Bloods.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
France’s Arnaud Desplechin with “Oh Mercy!,” a policier set, as many of his recent films have been, in his birthplace of Roubaix;
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2019
A new Blu-ray comes with an video appreciation of this 1959 policier by the director Curtis Hanson.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2017
As a Harry Brandt novel, “The Whites” is more of a policier than Price’s previous fiction—more plot-driven and less deeply engaged by the anthropology of its urban communities.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 9, 2015
“This,” said Dr. Constantine, “is more wildly improbable than any roman policier I have ever read.”
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
Alert viewers may also recognize a rough-hewn Lino Ventura — already a fixture in policiers — as one of Maigret’s men.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2017
The French have a long history of these kinds of detail-oriented policiers: a genre they pretty much invented.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2016
The film climaxes, as all policiers apparently must, with a car chase, but it is nowhere near as interesting as the successful off-casting of nice Hal Holbrook as a heavy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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