All posts tagged "movie crime"
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Heat, #59
November 14, 2024This is an organized crime movie in the literal sense of that term. It’s not about...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Jackie Brown, #58
November 13, 2024The cast is major league. Pam Grier reestablished her career playing the title character and Robert...
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Movie Review: End of Watch
November 11, 2024End Of Watch is a perfectly serviceable drama. It is also a bait and switch job....
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Kill the Irishman, #57
November 9, 2024Greene’s story is told in the excellent 2011 biopic, Kill the Irishman, which covers his rise...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Drunken Angel, #56
November 7, 2024This one, we know, is a tough sell. Drunken Angel is a 60-plus-year-old, black-and-white, subtitled Japanese...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Animal Kingdom, #55
November 3, 2024We place Jacki Weaver, as Grandma Smurf, on the Mount Rushmore of female movie gangsters, along...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Killing, #54
November 1, 2024There are two great reasons to see The Killing, Stanley Kubrick’s 1956 caper film about a...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Snatch, #53
October 29, 2024This is the second of Guy Ritchie’s madcap mob capers. And Brad Pitt’s performance as Mickey...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: High Sierra, #52
October 26, 2024Before 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
October 26, 2024Satire, serious, or schlock? That was the question playing through my mind during Maniac, director Franck...
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