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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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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: 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: 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: 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: 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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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Mesrine: Killer Instinct, Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 — #51
October 24, 2024Jacques Mesrine was one of the most notorious criminals in France during the 1960s and 1970s....
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Midnight Run, #50
October 22, 2024This is The Odd Couple on the run from the mob. And it works primarily—if not...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Big Heat, #49
October 18, 2024Bannion is a tough-talking homicide detective investigating the suicide of another cop. He questions the dead...