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
So it is with “Investigation,” a hard-edged policier that satirizes itself with Ennio Morricone’s cartoonish score and Gian Maria Volonté’s preening performance as the sociopathic police officer, referred to only as the Inspector.
From New York Times • May 14, 2020
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
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
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