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Connection, The (15)

Action, Crime, Thriller

A French police magistrate spends years trying to take down one of the country's most powerful drug rings.

More information on this production is available at www.theconnectionfilm.co.uk.

The critical consensus

For all the charisma of its hero and villain, it falls down on its failure to resist cliché.

***(*)(*)Dan Jolin, Empire Online, 25/05/2015

Jean Dujardin fronts a sporadically successful thriller, based on real events.

***(*)(*)Eddie Harrison, The List, 25/05/2015

This French flashback to the story that underpinned the Popeye Doyle films is narratively engrossing and skilful.

***(*)(*)Mike McCahill, The Guardian, 28/05/2015

French thriller has gritty realism and an impressive level of detail.

****(*)Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent, 29/05/2015

An entertaining production that just feels too familiar for its own good.

***(*)(*)Allan Hunter, Daily Express, 29/05/2015

This 70s Marseille-based crime thriller fails to make the most of its classy cast.

**(*)(*)(*)Jonathan Romney, The Observer, 31/05/2015

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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