All posts tagged "movie drama"

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Movie Review: Spring Breakers
January 13, 2026It is a painful stretch to suggest that most of the movie is each girl’s troubling...

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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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Early Review: Burma
January 11, 2026Puga has selected actors that neither underplay their roles nor try to outshine their co-stars. Abbott...

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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...

100 Greatest Gangster Films
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...

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Movie Review: Mud
January 4, 2026With just three feature films to his name, writer and director Jeff Nichols has already set...

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...














