Once again, Dennis Lim with a Cannes dispatch, here:
"Secret Sunshine" is a near unanimous favorite among the critics. James Gray's "We Own the Night," on the other hand, provoked a (wholly unwarranted) chorus of boos at its first press screening. Only Gray's third film in a dozen years, this heartfelt cop movie — set against a late '80s Brooklyn backdrop — finds the talented, underemployed director of "Little Odessa" and "The Yards" still mining the turf he apparently knows best: immigrant, blue-collar, outer-borough New York.
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