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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Sexy Beast, #24
August 25, 2024Sir Ben Kingsley becomes the ruthless Logan in Sexy Beast, and he’s 90 percent of the...
Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Public Enemy, #23
August 24, 2024Cagney, along with Edward G. Robinson, Paul Muni and, later, Humphrey Bogart, invented the film gangster....
Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Gangs of New York, #22
August 24, 2024Before there was John Gotti, before Carlo Gambino, before Lucky Luciano, there was Bill “the Butcher”...
100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Pope of Greenwich Village, #21
August 24, 2024To appreciate just how well director Stuart Rosenberg and writer Vincent Patrick captured wiseguy street corner...
100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Carlito’s Way, #20
August 24, 2024Brian De Palma was worried about doing another Hispanic drug kingpin movie after Scarface. But the...
100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Bonnie and Clyde, #19
August 22, 2024“Young people understood this movie instantly,” director Arthur Penn told the Los Angeles Times. “They saw...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: A Bronx Tale, #18
August 22, 2024A Bronx Tale is more than a wonderful portrait of growing up around the mob in...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: White Heat, #17
August 21, 2024This was film noir, movies where evil not only exists, but flourishes. Cagney’s Cody Jarrett isn’t...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Federal Hill, #79
July 19, 2024Writer-director Michael Corrente took the title and setting for his first movie from the Italian-American section...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Mafioso, #80
July 16, 2024“The Sicilians,” the agent said, “are very serious about what they do.” We see a lot...