Film
Cop Land
- 7PM
Sure, it’s fun to see Sylvestor Stalone looking soft and puppy eyed, upstaging everyone in this star turn as a disabled local sheriff whose New Jersey town has become a mecca for corrupt New York City cops. But Cop Land is also a remarkable watch for what it has to say about movie “copaganda” in the 90s. Police are bad, but also police are good. Anti-Black police violence is real, yet stereotypes of Black criminality abound, unchecked, throughout the film. Come for the pre-Sopranos celebrity cameos, stay for the reformist take on the police thriller—one that produces as many new contradictions as it tries to resolve.
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