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- (Tie) A History of Violence (2005) – 87%
- (Tie) Once Upon A Time in America (1984) – 87%
- Donnie Brasco (1997) – 88%
- The Departed (2006) – 90%
- (Tie) Miller’s Crossing (1990) – 92%
- (Tie) Little Caesar (1931) – 92%
- (Tie) Pulp Fiction (1994) – 92%
- The Irishman (2019) – 95%
- (Tie) Goodfellas (1990) – 96%
- (Tie) The Godfather Part II (1974) – 96%
At the turn of the century, Canadian auteur David Cronenberg pivoted away from the sci-fi/body horror movies he was known for (The Fly, Scanners, Dead Ringers, eXistenZ) to work in other genres. The results included a pair of critically acclaimed mob movies: Eastern Promises, about the Russian mob in London, and A History of Violence. Both films st...
Starring Robert De Niro and James Woods as child friends who rise together in the world of organized crime, Once Upon a Time in Americais notable for chronicling Jewish mobsters in New York City, as opposed to the typical Italian and Irish gangers depicted on screen. An American/Italian co-production from the great Italian director Sergio Leone (Th...
After looming large over 1970s cinema with crime classics such as the first two Godfather movies, Serpico, and Dog Day Afternoon, Al Pacino came roaring back in the 1990s with a clutch of hard-edged movies that recalled his classic ’70s work. These included The Godfather Part III, Carlito’s Way, Heat, and Donnie Brasco, based on a true story of an ...
The mandate to the casting director on The Departed must have been to get all the movie stars they could find for this remake of the 2002 Hong Kong gangster classic Infernal Affairs. Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, and Alec Baldwin dig into juicy roles in an entertaining yarn about a mole (Damon) who infi...
Joel and Ethan Coen have made many crime films, including Burn After Reading, Blood Simple, and Raising Arizona, but Miller’s Crossingis their only bona fide gangster picture. Starring Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, and John Turturro, the highly stylized film chronicles the Prohibition-era war between the Irish and Italian mobs, and the midlevel gan...
Warner Brothers became known for hard-edged, tough-talking gangster pictures in the 1930s and Depression-era audiences couldn’t get enough of them. Little Caesarwas among the first and most famous of the films, and it made a star (and a caricature) out of Edward G. Robinson, who plays Caesar Enrico “Rico” Bandello, aka “Little Caesar,” a small-town...
There’s not much new to say about a film this beloved and famous, except perhaps that it’s easy to forget just how shockingly fresh Pulp Fictionfelt when it arrived in theaters almost 30 years ago. Yes, there actually was a time before pop culture became inundated with references to five-dollar milkshakes, Big Kahuna burgers, bringing out the gimp,...
Director Martin Scorsese had wanted to make the story of a mob hit man (Robert De Niro) with connections to the Teamsters union and its famous president, Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino), for decades. He finally got the financing he needed (reportedly as high as $200 million) from Netflix, which was then hoping to get into the prestige motion picture game. ...
When Hollywood unceremoniously released three mob movies during the same week in the early fall of 1990 — the Coen Brothers’ Miller’s Crossing, State of Grace (starring Sean Penn and Gary Oldman), and Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas– no one could have predicted that the latter of them would enter the canon of great American movies and still be revered...
After the huge unexpected success of The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola quickly turned out this epic sequel that won him the Best Director Oscar he had failed to win for the original two years earlier. The movie intersperses Michael Corleone’s (Al Pacino) attempts to steer his crime family into legitimacy in 1950s Nevada with flashbacks that show ...
Aug 4, 2023 · Considered by many fans to be the best mob movie ever made (though some also favor Part II), Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather was a game-changer for the genre. Starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, and Diane Keaton, The Godfather, based on the novel by Mario Puzo, broke box office records and became the biggest film ...
Crossing the Mob. A scrappy teenager's (Jason Bateman) girlfriend and baby change his mind about working for a waterfront mobster (Frank Stallone).
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Oct 14, 1988 · With Jason Bateman, Maura Tierney, Patti D'Arbanville, Louis Giambalvo. A young mother turns a young man's streetwise life around when she reveals to him that he is the father of her infant baby.
1h 36m. Drama. Directed By: Steven Hilliard Stern. Do you think we mischaracterized a critic's review? Crossing the Mob Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience....
