Stories By George Anastasia, Glen Macnow
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: El Mariachi, #92
February 23, 2023But there’s a lot of energy and creativity in El Mariachi. Rodriguez has gone on to...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Year of the Dragon, #93
February 20, 2023Somewhere in the middle of this overwrought and overwritten gangland shoot-’em-up, there is a decent story....
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: New Jack City, #94
February 19, 2023A year after playing the righteous cop out to rid the city of the despicable drug...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Bound, #95
February 17, 2023Bound is distinct from the 99 other movies on this list. For starters, it’s the only...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: We Own the Night, #96
February 14, 2023This is half of a good movie. The first half. The set up and premise are...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Yakuza, #97
February 14, 2023Two exciting trends enlivened Hollywood in the mid-1970s. First, Frances Ford Coppola’s The Godfather reinvigorated the...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Made, #98
February 11, 2023During the day, Bobby works construction. And at night, he’s the driver/bodyguard for his girlfriend Jesse...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Brother (Brat), #99
February 9, 2023Brother was directed by Aleksey Balabanov, who’s been called Russia’s David Lynch. The movie created a...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Freshman, #100
February 8, 2023The Freshman has one thing that The Godfather: Part III does not—Marlon Brando. While Brando reprises...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Charley Varrick, #78
May 15, 2022Few filmgoers noticed Charley Varrick when it came out in 1973. After all, The Godfather, that...