You may not immediately know the name Robert LaSardo, but you know Robert LaSardo. (Though if you’re a regular reader, odds are you’re very...

Shea Whigham and Carrie Coon are prime examples of character actors who show up and automatically make anything better. No matter the film o...

12 years after skipping town, career thief Trojan (Misel Maticevic) returns to Berlin, desperate and looking for work. What he finds is a wo...

First-time feature writer/director Francis Galluppi’s crime thriller The Last Stop in Yuma County takes a simple, straightforward set up, f...

As the protagonist of The Night of the 12th says, every investigator has one case that haunts them, that they never solved and can’t let go...

What if Romeo and Juliet but with warring small town Italian farm mob families? That’s the basic conceit of Pippo Mezzapesa’s Burning Hearts...

There are two kinds of Frank Grillo movies, Frank-Grillo-gives-a-shit and Frank-Grillo-doesn’t-give-a-shit. Essentially projects he cares ab...

If you’re ever a criminal and think to yourself, “I’m out after this one last job ,” just walk away. Right there. Right then. Seriously, not...

Sometimes it’s easy to pinpoint precisely why a movie does or doesn’t work. Other times it’s more nebulous and harder to determine exactly w...

One thing movies have taught us is that, once you decide to leave the criminal lifestyle behind, you’re battle is only partially over. Such ...

Guy Ritchie’s bank robbery actioner,  Wrath of Man , has a protagonist named H ( Jason Statham ) and supporting players named things like Bu...

A guy walks into a bar. Only instead of beginning a joke, he comes with a story, a debt, deep secrets about to bubble to the surface, a...

Fung Chih-Chiang’s A Witness Out of the Blue has all the earmarks of a classic Hong Kong crime saga. There’s murder, slick production ...

Matthew Pope’s Blood on Her Name drops us right into the middle of a situation we don’t fully understand and forces us to cobble toget...

In 2017, the Safdie Brothers, AKA Josh and Bennie Safdie, delivered Good Time , a frantic blast of chaotic cinematic energy. It follows...

A bleak, dead end small town; generational cycles of drug use, crime, poverty, and despair; Josh Hartnett. Inherit the Viper reminds m...

From the first moments of Edgar Nito’s The Gasoline Thieves , tragedy seems inevitable. The film opens with a dark, tense scene where t...

A new Martin Scorsese movie is always a reason to celebrate, so let’s party like maniacs with the first trailer for his long-in-the-wor...

This is an updated version of an earlier review. To lump all South Korean cinema together and paint the industry with a singular, th...

Sometimes, on paper, a movie has all the ingredients necessary for success, but for one reason or another—or many—just doesn’t work. Su...