Stories By George Anastasia, Glen Macnow

100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Bugsy, #60
March 21, 2026Back home on the East Coast, he tells Lansky, “What do people always fantasize about? Sex,...

100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Heat, #59
March 19, 2026This is an organized crime movie in the literal sense of that term. It’s not about...

Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Jackie Brown, #58
March 18, 2026The cast is major league. Pam Grier reestablished her career playing the title character and Robert...

100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Kill the Irishman, #57
March 15, 2026Greene’s story is told in the excellent 2011 biopic, Kill the Irishman, which covers his rise...

Japan
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Drunken Angel, #56
March 11, 2026This one, we know, is a tough sell. Drunken Angel is a 60-plus-year-old, black-and-white, subtitled Japanese...

Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Animal Kingdom, #55
March 9, 2026We place Jacki Weaver, as Grandma Smurf, on the Mount Rushmore of female movie gangsters, along...

Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Killing, #54
March 7, 2026There are two great reasons to see The Killing, Stanley Kubrick’s 1956 caper film about a...

100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Snatch, #53
March 4, 2026This is the second of Guy Ritchie’s madcap mob capers. And Brad Pitt’s performance as Mickey...

Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: High Sierra, #52
March 1, 2026Before High Sierra, Hollywood’s gangsters were not just black-and-white on celluloid; they were equally definitive in...

Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Mesrine: Killer Instinct, Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 — #51
February 27, 2026Jacques Mesrine was one of the most notorious criminals in France during the 1960s and 1970s....














