All posts tagged "movie crime"

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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...

100 Greatest Gangster Films
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...

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Movie Review: End of Watch
March 16, 2026End Of Watch is a perfectly serviceable drama. It is also a bait and switch job....

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...

100 Greatest Gangster Films
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...

100 Greatest Gangster Films
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...

100 Greatest Gangster Films
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...

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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...

100 Greatest Gangster Films
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...

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Movie Review: Maniac
February 28, 2026Satire, serious, or schlock? That was the question playing through my mind during Maniac, director Franck...














