Police, Adjective

...mesmerizing in the way Porumboiu...slowly unfurls the forces Bucur is up against in a country that refuses, at least temporarily, to follow the lead of more progressive European nations.

...riveting slice of Romanian new wave drama, haunted by shadows of the Ceausescu era...

...a deadpan slice-of-life drama, showing a modern Romania torpidly depressed in spirit, unable to jettison the toxic bureaucratic pedantry of the old regime.

...its surprisingly effective key scene involves an argument with his captain over the dictionary definitions of the words conscience and justice.

With a positively glacial narrative pace the film ends in a small absurdist triumph.