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Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: This movie is so racist that it's almost possible to overlook the wholesale misogyny. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Benefits from the best screen performance since Glory by the mighty, mercurial Denzel Washington. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Being bad brings out the best in Washington, and his performance elevates Training Day past its familiar street-cops scenario into something richer and far more engrossing. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: To create a meaningful scenario, you must have a credible balance between good and evil. Training Day self-destructs on its cavalier failure to honor that axiom. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Director Fuqua, Mr. Washington, Mr. Hawke and the rest prove that there's nothing wrong with the urban-crime genre that a little energy can't cure. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Even though Training Day collapses into a slew of implausibilities at the end, it's still one of the most continuously exciting of the recent big action movies. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: A glib potboiler torn from today's screaming headlines. Read more
Kevin Maynard, Mr. Showbiz: Training Day is mesmerizing entertainment, but it's also a cop-out. Read more
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader: If he makes it through the trial by fire -- and a blandly twisting plot with no meaningful revelations or substantial themes -- Hawke will get a promotion, but there's nothing in it for us. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: While Training Day is a violent film, its brutality takes place in a believable moral universe and isn't just tossed in to give us a thrill. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: Giving Alonso a melodramatic secret -- a reason for this particular behavior on this particular day -- trivializes the whole exercise. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Denzel gives a blisteringly brilliant performance in this good cop/bad cop drama. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Even though Training Day doesn't resolve itself as well as it deserves and ends strictly cops-and-robbers style, it's given us some great acting and something to ponder. Read more
Louis B. Parks, Houston Chronicle: Director Antoine Fuqua, whose credits include the unimpressive The Replacement Killers, keeps a kinetic pace with visually exciting immediacy. Read more
Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: As usual Washington is astounding. He grabs the screen like a vise and never lets go. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: Alonzo Harris ultimately is a character whose plausibility can't withstand our scrutiny, but Washington's turn as him is a wicked performance to relish. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Is a case of synthetic sensationalism, a glorified star-image makeover that grows glossier and more monotonous as it goes along. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Here's a cop drama with some brutal smarts, rather than dumb brutality and smart-alecky one-liners. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: On a purely visceral level, Training Day is easily the most exciting movie out there right now, but as a morality tale with anything large on its mind, it's a cop-out. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Training Day is a tense, polished, well-made action thriller that suffers from bad timing. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: For its kinetic energy and acting zeal, I enjoyed the movie. I like it when actors go for broke. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Training Day isn't just one of the finest cops-and-robbers thrillers of recent years, full of devious twists and gut-grinding tension, but it also steers clear of convenient moral formulas. Read more
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: Washington plays Alonzo like a con man with a one-two punch ... It's tour-de-force acting. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: As impersonated by the evangelically thunderous Washington -- who no longer acts with other performers, he acts at them -- Alonzo feels about as 'street' as a Beverly Hills ghetto. Read more
Time Out: Director Fuqua keeps it slick and sleazy and stokes up the race some, but this only accelerates the movie's deafening rush toward the top and ever over. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: With its unflinching style, Training Day can be hard to sit through at times. But it's worth the discomfort for the adrenaline rush of the plot and Washington's compelling performance. Read more
Amy Taubin, Village Voice: Propulsive, elegantly written police thriller. Read more