Guy Ritchie’s 1998 film making debut “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” sits at the very top of my all…
Browsing: Crime
“No Country For Old Men,” like “Fargo,” “Reservoir Dogs,” and like dramas, paints a crime, the opportunists seeking to take…
“Dog Day Afternoon” deconstructs the idea of the heist picture. In fact, it may not be a heist movie at…
Midway through “Ocean’s 8,” the spin-off of the “Ocean’s” trilogy, Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) tells Lou (Cate Blanchett) that there’s no…
In “Ocean’s Thirteen,” our gang return to Vegas when a sleazy casino owner Willy Bank (Al Pacino) double-crosses Reuben (Elliot Gould).…
In “Ocean’s Twelve,” the old squad reunites to do one more heist when a blast from the crew’s past comes…
With “Ocean’s Eight” releasing on Friday, I thought I’d review the trilogy, which starts with 2001’s “Ocean’s Eleven” based on…
I probably saw “The Condemned” for the first time when I was around 13 years old. For a 13-year-old kid, an…
What we learn from “Brawl in Cell Block 99” is that Vince Vaughn is a terrific actor. The man who…
The quintessential tough guy is generally envisioned as a musclebound brute in the mold of such heroes as Arnold Schwarzenegger,…