1.   The film was a spoof on Hollywood cop movies.

2.   A lot of cop movies are pretty cavalier about murder.

3.   For some reason, cop movies lend themselves to some of the most generic titles in cinema.

4.   If all buddy cop movies are frustratingly formulaic, the same can be said about buddy cop TV shows.

5.   I was suddenly perceived as a guy who was going to make these cop movies, or guy movies.

6.   In his latest film, he takes the conventional genre of the cop movie and brings to it his nuanced approach.

7.   It sends up all those overinflated and gratuitously violent cop movies, then itself opts for overinflation and gratuitous violence.

8.   It was a low-budget cop movie co-starring a classically trained actor, Danny Glover, known mostly for his stage work.

9.   Next up for Burns is a pet project, a cop movie partly based on the stories of his father and other cops in the family.

10.   The ultimate cop movie and the grittiest New York street movie, it also comes off in retrospect as an extraordinarily brooding, even contemplative action thriller.