Politeness and bonhomie are strictly provisional and everybody knows it,which is what gives this film it's terrible sadness. In the miserable economy of power in Boston's rumpled grey underworld, Eddie and his 'friends' are all expendable, and the ones left standing play every side against the middle, their white-knuckle terror carefully concealed under several layers of nonchalance and resignation.
Kent Jones
on Friends of Eddie Coyle - 1973
Criterion
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