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The critics consensus states, "An odd couple cop thriller with a twist, The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil tells its entertaining story with a blend of humour and hard-hitting ." [12] On review aggregator website Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 65 out of 100 based on seven critics, indicating "generally favourable reviews". [13]
Gangster Squad is a 2013 American action thriller film directed by Ruben Fleischer and written by Will Beall, based on a non-fiction book by Paul Lieberman. The film stars Josh Brolin , Ryan Gosling , Nick Nolte , Emma Stone , Anthony Mackie , Giovanni Ribisi , Robert Patrick , Michael Peña and Sean Penn .
The Hong Kong gangster film genre began with 1986's A Better Tomorrow, directed by John Woo and starring Chow Yun Fat. [32] Woo's tale of counterfeiters portrays a gangster who balances "Kung Fu honor" and the materialistic goals of the Triads. [32] It was the all-time biggest grossing Hong Kong film at the box office and was critically acclaimed.
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Gangs of New York (2002), also directed by Scorsese, was the first modern gangster film to focus on the 19th-century Irish gangs. Although the gay nineties had been a popular setting for prewar crime films, from the 1950s until the early 21st century most gangster movies were set in either the prohibition era, postwar America, or the present day.
Kill the Irishman is a 2011 American biographical crime film directed by Jonathan Hensleigh, [3] and starring Ray Stevenson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Christopher Walken, and Val Kilmer. Written by Hensleigh and Jeremy Walters, it is based on the life of the Irish-American gangster Danny Greene , and was adapted from the book To Kill the Irishman: The ...
Live by Night is a 2016 American gangster film written, directed, produced by and starring Ben Affleck.Based on the 2012 novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane, the film follows an ambitious Ybor City bootlegger (Affleck) who becomes a notorious gangster. [5]
Gangsta (Dutch: Patser) is a 2018 Belgian crime film co-edited, co-written and directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah. [1] Main roles are played by Matteo Simoni , Nora Gharib , Saïd Boumazoughe , Gene Bervoets and Axel Daeseleire .