
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Donnie Brasco, #8
December 23, 2025One of the reasons the movie works so well is the interplay between Pacino and Johnny...

100 Greatest Gangster Films: On the Waterfront, #4
December 23, 2025All these years later, On the Waterfront continues to work as a magnificent bit of drama—and...

100 Greatest Gangster Films: Goodfellas, #3
December 23, 2025There is no romance here. No looking out for one’s people. No myth of a moral...

100 Greatest Gangster Films: Little Caesar, #6
December 23, 2025Enrico Bandello was the prototype for every film gangster who followed. The tight-fitting three-piece suits, the...

100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Departed, #7
December 22, 2025There are references to Hawthorne, Shakespeare and James Joyce. Conversely, and while we didn’t keep count,...

100 Greatest Gangster Films: Pulp Fiction, #5
December 21, 2025Part of the joy is not always knowing who the good guys are. Tarantino shot Pulp...

100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather: Part II, #2
December 21, 2025Al Pacino reprises his role as Michael and offers us an Ivy League Machiavelli. He has...

100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
December 20, 2025The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...

100 Greatest Gangster Films: Federal Hill, #79
November 22, 2025Writer-director Michael Corrente took the title and setting for his first movie from the Italian-American section...

100 Greatest Gangster Films: Mafioso, #80
November 19, 2025“The Sicilians,” the agent said, “are very serious about what they do.” We see a lot...













