Red Riding: 1974

This is the first of three absorbing adaptations (filmed concurrently by different directors) of David Peace’s linked novels about crime and corruption in Yorkshire, England.

"...concurrently) of David Peace’s linked novels about crime and corruption in Yorkshire, England. The three films – each written..."

March 19, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

RocknRolla

Director Guy Ritchie once more delivers a kinetic and consequence-free tribute to the criminal lifestyle.

"...it to say that it involves brutish mobsters, political corruption, a couple of high-profile robberies, lots of guns, lots..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Bank Job

When a gang of thieves break into some London safe-deposit boxes, they enter a world of police corruption, financial malfeasance, sexual degeneracy, political conspiracy, murder, torture, and upper-class salaciousness.

"...ring; they stumble into a whole universe of police corruption, financial malfeasance, sexual degeneracy, political conspiracy, murder, torture, and..."

March 7, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

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.

"...abetted by a police department riddled with more internal corruption and outer rot than a smack-head's corpse. Every day..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Juarez: Stages of Fear

This film is a passionate if clunky cri du coeur for the kidnapped and murdered women of Juarez, Mexico – a silent epidemic of as many as 450 crimes in the last 10 years.

"...UT-Brownsville Collegian, and his film lambasts the apathy and corruption that predominates among local law enforcement. The film advances..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Constant Gardener

City of God director Fernando Meirelles makes his English-language debut with this bracing, heartbreaking conspiracy thriller set in AIDS-ravaged Kenya.

"...husband. As much as this is a movie about corruption, murder, fraud, greed, and the separate worlds inhabited by..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Herod's Law

Unflinching satire is diminished by overwritten messages.

"...obsequious Vargas transforms from ineffectual stooge to paragon of corruption – in other words, a successful politician. Along the..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Mod Squad

"...available on the Web, why take part in the corruption of promising young directors by going to see pointless..."

March 26, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Corruptor

"...price -- mainly that compromises are as inevitable as corruption -- he wavers and then charges full on into..."

March 12, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

L.A. Confidential

Los Angeles police corruption and 1950s noir sexuality combine in this modern thriller.

"...James Ellroy's seminal novel of 1950s Los Angeles police corruption and noir sexuality into recognizable shape for this distinguished..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Matilda

"...dark, good and evil, enlightenment and ignorance, innocence and corruption is the heart of this absurd, insightful, sincere, very..."

Aug. 9, 1996 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Striptease

"...about the ironic intersection of sex, scandal, politics, and corruption in steamy southern Florida. As a movie, Striptease sinks..."

July 5, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lone Star

Writer/director Sayles squeezes lots of metaphorical juice from the idea of borders in this story filmed on the Texas side of the Rio Grande. Ostensibly a murder mystery, the story exposes many other town secrets.

"...called Frontera and fills it with divisions: U.S./Mexico, military/civilian, corruption/honesty, black/white, parent/child, legend/truth …. In every case, he finds..."

June 28, 1996 Movie Review by Robert Faires

The Glass Shield

In this often overlooked film by Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep, To Sleep With Anger), a black cop in an all-white police station confronts racism from his colleagues and incredulity from his family and community

"...female cop?) Anyway, this station is riddled with deep-rooted corruption and it all comes to a head for J.J...."

June 23, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

First Shot

"...1970s. The Hong Kong police force is rife with corruption, working side by side with the Triads. Most of..."

Oct. 14, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Clear and Present Danger

"...wrong is the only effective way to counter the corruption he confronts. Ford understands this better than he did..."

Aug. 5, 1994 Movie Review by Brian Baker

Stepping Razor -- Red X

"...hopes of blinding him forever to the lies and corruption that surrounded his world. It didn't work, obviously, and..."

Feb. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pepi, Luci, Bom

"...bearded lady and her voyeur husband, drug use, police corruption and... well, more. If you needed any further proof..."

Jan. 8, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Amazon

"...The Amazon River Basin -- seething with life, death, corruption and rebirth -- has always been easy food for..."

Aug. 14, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

All the Vermeers in New York

"...for the Eighties, “a decade bathed in delusions and corruption, of both the social body and the individual spirit.”..."

June 19, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

City of Hope

"...under siege by economic forces from the outside and corruption from the inside. Sayles deftly weaves a handful of..."

Oct. 25, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Open Doors

"...A loyal functionary in the fascist machine, fired for corruption, kills his boss, the man who replaced him and..."

June 21, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

True Colors

"...civics primer: ethics and morality are good, greed and corruption are bad. As the modern-day Damon and Pythian whose..."

June 21, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Dawnna Dukes’ Delays

Corruption trial held off until Dec. 11

"...Dawnna Dukes' trial for felony corruption charges is now officially delayed. On Tuesday, District Judge..."

Sept. 29, 2017 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Point Austin: A Hill of Beans

Tom DeLay's story is a profile in political corruption

"...still steaming and resplendent with the excremental stench of corruption...."

Nov. 19, 2010 News Column by Michael King

Married Life

This film's wonderful, amoral resignation makes Married Life so deliciously different from other period-set crime stories, and its terrific cast keeps thing percolating.

"...Rachel McAdams, David Richmond-Peck, David Wenham and Timothy Webber. Corruption, immorality, decadence, secrecy, loyalty, selfishness, selflessness, murder, love, sex,..."

March 28, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Voter Backlash Rehashed

A Whole Lotta Trouble for a Little Less Corruption

"...has the whimsical title "Austinites for a Little Less Corruption," (ALLC) and with it, those ever-vigilant watchdogs at Priorities..."

Nov. 1, 1996 News Column by Alex de Marban

Housecore Horror to Open the 'The Profane Exhibit'

Festival to debut extreme horror anthology

"...details of each bloody tale: 22 Rue des Martyrs Corruption of Power: What is left to attain when money..."

May 16, 2013 Screens Post

Collective

Terrifying documentary exposes how graft turned a disaster into a national scandal

"...Insidious political corruption may be ubiquitous in modern society, but it has..."

Nov. 20, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Fables of the Reconstruction

A confidential internal U.S. memo describes a Coalition / Iraqi administration sinking into chaos

"...fears, U.S. efforts have created an environment rife with corruption and sectarianism likely to result in civil war...."

April 16, 2004 News Feature by Jason Vest

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