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Gavin O’Connor’s “Pride & Glory,” held from release for a long time because of corporate maneuverings behind the scene, is in fact a capable, taut melodrama of a tightly knit group of cops in New York, related by blood or marriage, and the results when corruption is glossed over, overlooked, taken as the norm. Parallels with Abu Ghraib and other failed missions in Iraq sing quietly through the telling. Bad apples? The better metaphor is about fish: they stink from the head. Jon Voight plays the paterfamilias; the cops include Colin Farrell, Edward Norton and Noah Emmerich. Resemblances to New York policiers of the 1970s are surely intentional, to fine result. With Jennifer Ehle, John Ortiz, Frank Grillo, Shea Whigham. 125m. (Ray Pride)
