GENRE: Gangsters, Fugitives, Killers, Coppers and Robbers

Watch Jimmy Cagney and Jean Harlow do something amazing with a grapefruit.

*snicker*

Disappointing, but to be fair my expectations were really really high.

Pretty descent gangster film about the birth of the FBI. Cagney chews some scenery and has a few great moments too.

Leslie Howard and Betty Davis have zero chemistry in this film. However the unexpected story and Bogart make this film a real pleasure.

Depression Era Melodrame is boring at best. Bogart, when he's actually on the screen, chews the scenery a bit.

Not my favorite Cagney, Bogart or Walsh, but still a solid gangster flick.

Worth seeing for the historical narrative montages.

Bogart's ticket to stardom is either the story of a notorious bank robber with a heart of gold or the story of an cute little puppy that also happens to be a harbinger of DOOM!

The camera and technique are really the stars in the early film by Welles.

Mostly Meh.

and Farley Granger is wicked miscast

extra 1/2 star bonus for the camera work

An early police procedural that was the template for Dragnet. Although this picture is said to be directed by Alfred Werkler it's actually a early directorial project by Anthony Mann.

Worth seeing just for the final chase through the sewers of LA

Absolutely one of the best movies I've seen in years. No Bullshit, a must see for ANY film fan.

It's Running Scared meets Bicycle Thief

Ryan and Mitchum are pretty good as rivals in this cops and gangster film, but the dialog is really the star here

Best use of an umbrella EVER!

Bronson is great in his first starring role. This Roger Corman crime flick is a lot of fun and whizzes by at a blistering 80 minutes

Awesome little heist film by the master Jules Dassin.

De Palma cribbed the Mission Impossible "Tom Cruise hanging from the ceiling" bit from here.

What's cooler than being cool?
Ice Cold.
What cooler than that?
Absolute Zero
What's cooler than that?
This movie

I can't even begin to describe the cornucopia of ocular delights that is Danger: Diabolik.

One of the grooviest movies ever! This movie DRIPS with pop coolness

A very groovy film shot by the amazing Douglas Slocombe

Brilliant British Gangster Film. Michael Caine goes on the warpath after his brother dies in mysterious circumstances.

Extra Bonus: Britt Ekland is wicked hot.

First and best in the series

Walter Matthau is amazing in this crop dusting heist film

I appreciate this a lot more than I like it. Mob stories have never been a favorite genre on mine.

Pacino gives a great performance as a hippie cop who tries to bring down corruption in the NYPD.

Lumet turns in a very realistic and touching (if now cliche') story of a man standing up against the system. Definitely a pre-cursor to Prince of the City.

Yes, I just saw it. No, I don't know how that happened.

Possibly the best bank robbery movie ever made

I can tell that if I had seen this when I was 14 , it would have been one of my favorite films of all time.

Still, Walter Hill crafts a fun, stylized early action film that's hard not to love.

Sidney Lumet presents
Law and Order: The Movie

British Godfather and Michael Mann's playbook

Where my hate for Sofia Coppola begins

Admirable for the achievement under the circumstances.

A Sam PeckinpAsain ridiculous action film!!

My favorite part of this film is Lee's use of color. Through the production design and the use of reversal film stock, Clockers' colors really pop. Creating a world of vibrant colors to go along with the complexity of the situation at hand.

The film is a little bit of everything. Part cop film, part gangster, part family drama part neighborhood drama. Unfortunately the whole doesn't add up to the sum of it's parts.

Solid performances and great craftsmanship can't save this film. Not to say that it's bad, it's just remarkably unremarkable.

Better than the 2nd, not as good as the first

Another Near Masterpiece by Michael Mann. Fantastic

The birth of Fincher into the common vernacular

If anyone had any doubts about Tarantino's directing talent...this settled it.

Incredible cast, lead by a powerhouse performance by Stallone.

The best film of 1997

My first introduction to Kitano. Very interesting stylistically, sort of the anti-John Woo. Like if Sam Fuller had a man-baby with Gus Van Sant

This movie cooler than the Fonz...

Yea I went there

Michael Bay at his best.

Big, stupid and loud doesn't get any more AWESOME than this.

Not as good as the Departed, but a damn fine film. The trilogy is better than the departed, but that's not really a fair comparison.

The writing is much better than the directing. I've seen a lot of these elements before, but not quite in this fashion. A great cast makes this film highly watchable.

Ridley seems like he's trying so hard to be hip...and it doesn't quiet work. the acting is great but the movie is tired. Scott again does a great job of evoking the atmosphere of 1970's Harlem

Sam Peckinpah does Noir

This IS the Coen Brothers best film, and the 2nd best film of 2007, only slightly bested by "There Will Be Blood"

Love the title

It lives up to some VERY high expectations.

It's like the French Connection with Batman as Popeye Doyle. There's even a car chase under an elevated train.

On a second viewing I realize that this film is Great, but not a masterpiece. A few minor details don't detract from the viewing experience, but do become noticeable once the ecstasy wears off. What Hitchcock refereed too as refrigerator logic.

Batman jumps out of his penthouse to save Rachel...and leaves the joker with all of his house guests...and were lead to believe that what? The Joker politely excused himself? The bat-sonar is cool...but seriously? There isn't enough science in the world to pull that off.

and I'm almost willing to overlook the Joker's ninja like ability to plant bombs without people noticing...almost.

Regardless it's one hell oh a movie, and one of the best of 2008. Wally Pfister's cinematography is breathtaking (especially in Imax. The depth of field that camera has makes me hot). Grand performances all round. Especially from Gary Oldman, whose Lt. Gordon holds together this dynamite ensemble cast.

Peckinpah's poetic tale of masculinity is a sight to behold. A truly brutal and beautiful film about the death of the old west. Holden, Borgnine, Oates, O'Briejn and Ryan are marvelous as the last of a dying breed.

Westerns, action and film were all never the same after The Wild Bunch .

It also features the most awesome director's credit in history.

"If they move, Kill em'!"

Beatty's charm and Gordon Willis' cinematography elevate this highly influential film to great heights. Pakula's direction, and in particular his attention to humor. are sublime.

A great watch, well worth your time.

The blue print for the big summer action movie.

One of the best debut films I've seen in a very long time. Endlessly entertaining and surprising. Hands down Colin Farrel's finest performance

A perfect film noir using every film convention to their utmost potency.

Distilled Noir

100% Columbian Noir

This shit will make you crazzzy.

Malick's masterpiece. One of the most gorgeously shot films in history. Right up there with The Conformist and Chinatown.

Gere, Adams and Shepard all give exquisitely simple performance that speak volumes.

However the real brilliance lies with it's Mise en Cadre. The collision of images, created through the editing and direction, build a visual poem of powerful emotion.

This movie is fantastic. No really I mean it.

Shane Black completely does to Film Noir what he did for...well not for Film Noir really Neo-Noir.

But I mean who of you who are reading this would know the difference. I'm not saying anything it's just--well the difference is subtle..technical really and--

I mean it's like the difference between ding dong's and ho ho's...they aren't the "same" really,

Look at me I'm completely off topic. I'm being a bad reviewer.

Okay back to the film. The dialog is really good too. It crackles with Black wit...oh that was clever...nevermind no it wasn't

Anyway see the movie, it's really good.

Oh and there's a monkey from the future too. Ugly Sucker. Only says "Ficus".

and you get to see Monaghan's goods too if your not convinced. Perverts...

3rd best Spielberg movie after Jaws & Raiders

My favorite Kubrick. One of the best hiest films of all time. Sterling Hayden is a god.

One of the great unsung film noir's.
Carol Reed's (The Third Man) other great masterpiece stars James Mason as an Irish terrorist on the hiding out from his gang, the law and head hunting citizens.

A funny romp across the highways of the South. The music and Gleason are a hoot!

Thoroughly entertaining

Well crafted and stylish but kind of everything you've seen before. The opening sequence is spectacular.

This movie makes the Fonz look like Peter Party. Nothing is cooler than a Melville/Delon pairing.

Bad ass and way a head of it's time. Worth seeing for the stadium pull back helicopter shot alone.

A brilliant genre opposite to Zodiac

A damn fine gangster pic

Mamet takes a page from the Hitchcock hand book.