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100 Greatest Gangster Films: On the Waterfront, #4
August 19, 2024All these years later, On the Waterfront continues to work as a magnificent bit of drama—and...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Donnie Brasco, #8
August 18, 2024One of the reasons the movie works so well is the interplay between Pacino and Johnny...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Little Caesar, #6
August 18, 2024Enrico Bandello was the prototype for every film gangster who followed. The tight-fitting three-piece suits, the...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Goodfellas, #3
August 18, 2024There is no romance here. No looking out for one’s people. No myth of a moral...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Departed, #7
August 18, 2024There are references to Hawthorne, Shakespeare and James Joyce. Conversely, and while we didn’t keep count,...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Pulp Fiction, #5
August 17, 2024Part of the joy is not always knowing who the good guys are. Tarantino shot Pulp...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather: Part II, #2
August 17, 2024Al Pacino reprises his role as Michael and offers us an Ivy League Machiavelli. He has...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
August 16, 2024The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Federal Hill, #79
July 19, 2024Writer-director Michael Corrente took the title and setting for his first movie from the Italian-American section...
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100 Greatest Gangster Films: Mafioso, #80
July 16, 2024“The Sicilians,” the agent said, “are very serious about what they do.” We see a lot...