All posts tagged "movie crime"

Movies
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...

100 Greatest Gangster Films
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...

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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...

Movies
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,...

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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...

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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...

100 Greatest Gangster Films
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...

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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...














