American Gangster

A sizzling cast and their director do a crackerjack job of nailing the look and feel of New York City's bad old days of internal corruption and outer rot.

"...Common. Based on Mark Jacobson's New York magazine article, American Gangster does a crackerjack job at nailing the look..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gangster Squad

Despite uneven filmmaking and questionable facts, an extraordinary cast brings this story about mobster Mickey Cohen's attempted takeover of L.A. and the handful of honest cops who thwarted him.

"...which includes the plot and many of the performances, Gangster Squad tells the story of a number of cops..."

Jan. 11, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Fall of the American Empire

Oscar winner Denys Arcand mixes crime, political commentary

"...of his earliest works, 1986’s The Decline of the American Empire for his new film. He continues to mine..."

June 28, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

DVDanger: 'American Mary'/'Ninja III: The Domination'

The changing POV of the female revenge flick

"...potboiler Ninja III: The Domination and Canadian psycho-surgical creeper American Mary, she has finally started to control her own..."

June 15, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

American Dreamer

Jim Gaffigan shows a flair for darkness, but this rideshare thriller stays in neutral

"...credibly by the comedian Jim Gaffigan), has seen his American dream go kaput. Canned from his job, divorced from..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Your Guide to the Most Intriguing Films of This Year’s Austin Asian American Film Festival

AAAFF looks cool AF

"...The Austin Asian American Film Festival is back in town, but if you..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Screens Feature by Michael Agresta

Original of the Species

U2 3D

"...special Mr. Magoo glasses and having this 85-minute South American pit stop on U2’s Vertigo tour end on “The..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula

The Korean zombie franchise becomes a fun heist flick

"...barnstormingly bullish performance by future Marvel Eternal and the gangster from top notch crime flick The Gangster, The Cop,..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Compadres

Mexican action comedy

"...by the rules, and is looking to bust a gangster named Santos (Elias). Ignoring pleas from his family-man partner..."

April 22, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Brother

"...its director, a tough cookie to crack. Part lyrical gangster drama, part new jack crime-family saga, and part traditional..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Truth or Consequences, N.M.

"...Romance with Martin Sheen in the Christopher Walken psycho gangster role!”) than losing yourself in the story at hand...."

May 30, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Romeo Must Die

"...cobbled together from any number of previous HK “honorable gangster” films, though instead of the docks of HK Bay,..."

March 24, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

"...Wellman is one of the Hollywood pioneers and an American original who, for numerous reasons, has never received his..."

July 12, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wicker Park

Paul McGuigan pulls out all the stops on his Wurlitzter Organ of Incessant Camera Trickery to muddy the waters of rationality in this bizarre remake of a fine French thriller.

"...(most notably with the clanging, bullet-ridden bravado of 2000’s Gangster No. 1), fails to engage the audience. They’re likely..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

There Will Be Film

"...5) American Gangster This taut crime epic set in a gritty,..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Screens Feature by Steve Davis

Laal Singh Chaddha

Indian remake of Forrest Gump even more cloying than the original

"...and the film has a firm place as an American classic. But what happens when this story is translated..."

Aug. 12, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Hurtado

What Love Is

Writer/director Callahan keeps his characters talking from the first frame to the last – and like all great chatterers their preferred topic is love and all its variations.

"...Is is a throwback to the salad days of American independent cinema, a time when filmmakers like Kevin Smith..."

March 23, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Jackal

"...it were) among hit men. Hired by a Russian-based gangster to kill the FBI director, he's pursued by an..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Long Dumb Road

The road may be dumb, but at least it's fun

"...its purest” through his photography (and that overly romanticized American ideal known as the road trip), snapping pictures of..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

DVD Watch: 'Night of the Hunted'/'The Grapes of Death'

Horror auteur Rollin abandons vampires for mental decline

"...horror director Jean Rollin seemed to have no North American peer: But the two latest releases from his cinematic..."

April 23, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Yellow

"...look at the pre-graduation jitters surrounding a group of Korean-American high schoolers over the course of two days as..."

July 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Free Fire

A delirious shoot'em-up comedy

"...his sixth feature since 2009’s haunting and perfect lo-fi gangster melodrama Down Terrace, is both a formal experiment in..."

April 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Le Samourai

Fedoras and trench coats. Film noir in cool blues and greens. Melville's 1967 film is the real deal.

"...(who adopted the name of one of his favorite American authors) created his own production company when denied access..."

May 30, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Last Man Standing

"...of films that includes 1993's historical epic Geronimo: An American Legend and last year's surreal, explosive drama Wild Bill,..."

Sept. 27, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Ronnie Earle, Gangbuster

Jesse Sublett revisits Austin’s criminal past in Last Gangster in Austin

"...mystery/memoir, and, most recently, another true-crime saga, 1960s Austin Gangsters: Organized Crime That Rocked the Capital. This new book,..."

June 10, 2022 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Mary Moody Northen Theatre's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

This gangster spectacle based on Hitler's rise feels more than timely in the current election year

"...Arturo Ui. At the outset of playwright Bertolt Brecht's "gangster spectacle," the Al Capone wannabe of the title is..."

Oct. 7, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Foolish

"...muster for Andrew Dice Clay (who co-stars as Fifty's gangster employer) is some startlingly poignant, passionately delivered stuff on..."

April 30, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

A Bronx Tale

"...De Niro territory, A Bronx Tale takes that often-portrayed, Italian-American experience of young manhood and examines it in some..."

Oct. 1, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gods of Egypt

We already have a strong contender for the worst film of 2016

"...mind. (Then again, Hollywood cast Omar Sharif as the American gangster Nicky Arnstein in Funny Girl, so it works..."

March 4, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Ripping That Brooklyn Soul

Jay-Z meets Marvin Gaye in Brooklyn

"...Mick Boogie’s Brooklyn Soul, the pieced-together collabo of Jay’s American Gangster lyrics and Mick’s pick of Marvin Gaye samples...."

July 1, 2008 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

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