All posts tagged "movie crime"
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Charley Varrick, #78
January 8, 2025Few filmgoers noticed Charley Varrick when it came out in 1973. After all, The Godfather, that...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: King of New York, #77
January 3, 2025Christopher Walken plays—as only Walken can—Frank White, a drug dealer whose release from prison sets the...
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Al Capone, #76
December 30, 2024Rod Steiger offers one of the best portrayals of the legendary “Scarface” in this straightforward account...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather: Part III, #75
December 27, 2024The problem with Godfather III is that . . . it’s not Godfather I or Godfather...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Roaring Twenties, #74
December 24, 2024Warner Brothers owned the franchise for gangster films in the 1930s. The studio capped the decade...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Analyze This, #73
December 23, 2024The film succeeds because of strong performances by its two stars. Veteran comic actor Billy Crystal...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: American Me, #72
December 21, 2024But the gang becomes even more powerful behind bars, controlling the drug trade out on the...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Killers, #71
December 18, 2024Ernest Hemingway hated Hollywood. Or, more to the point, the great American author hated Hollywood’s treatment...
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Valachi Papers, #70
December 16, 2024While the acting is choppy and sometimes overly dramatic in The Valachi Papers, the story stays...
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Movies
Movie Review: Savages
December 12, 2024Most entertaining are Benicio Del Toro and John Travolta. Del Toro plays Lado, Elena’s right hand...