All posts tagged "movie crime"

100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Long Good Friday, #34
January 19, 2026There’s a fascinating blend of flag waver and felon in the English bulldog character created by...

Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: American Gangster, #33
January 15, 2026Based loosely on the life and times of Harlem drug kingpin Frank Lucas, American Gangster was...

Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: City of God, #32
January 13, 2026The frantic pace and relentless violence drive home the promotional tagline that so accurately described the...

100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Petrified Forest, #31
January 12, 2026Watching The Petrified Forest you can see Bogey developing his craft. Riffing off of John Dillinger,...

100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The French Connection, #30
January 10, 2026New York City is more gritty than pretty in this period piece, which was shot before...

Movies
Movie Review: The Place Beyond the Pines
January 9, 2026Despite all of these good elements, the movie ends up significantly less than the sum of...

Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Eastern Promises, #29
January 8, 2026The diary of Tatiana (Tatiana Maslany), a 14-year-old, drug-addicted prostitute who dies while giving birth to...

Movies
Movie Review: Trance
January 7, 2026In its brief run time of an hour and 40 minutes, Trance includes a heist to...

Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Untouchables, #28
January 5, 2026In the midst of a dinner party in his honor, Capone (Robert De Niro) takes out...

100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Rififi, #27
January 4, 2026That these guys are, as the French say, sympathique, is evident from the beginning of the...














