All posts tagged "movie crime"
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Movies
Movie Review: Drive
January 4, 2023Despite its holy-grail status in Hollywood, a clever script brimming with witty banter is not always...
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Movie Review: 30 Minutes or Less
December 28, 2022If 30 Minutes or Less weren’t so bogged down with gratuitous cursing, violence, and boobs, it...
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Movies
Movie Review: Green Lantern
December 13, 2022This sequence is the best in the entire film. There’s something very 1950s sci-fi serial about...
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Movie Review: Fast Five
December 2, 2022There are plenty of car chases, explosions, fistfights, and gunfights to hold the proceedings together, which...
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Movie Review: The Town
October 17, 2022The movie is a suspenseful heist-romance with complex characters, brilliant action, and masterful performances. Affleck plays...
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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...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: King of New York, #77
May 11, 2022Christopher Walken plays—as only Walken can—Frank White, a drug dealer whose release from prison sets the...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Al Capone, #76
May 8, 2022Rod 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
May 4, 2022The 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
May 1, 2022Warner Brothers owned the franchise for gangster films in the 1930s. The studio capped the decade...